There are many reasons to engage an IT consultant and employ IT staff augmentation and there are many benefits when it is done right. Businesses can quickly scale up and down to accommodate a project or meet a need. They can engage talent with specific skills and training to meet the requirements of their current and future business landscape. The business can mitigate the cost of training to keep IT skills current, and ensure staffing flexibility to fill in the gaps in a project team or for ongoing support, and it can accommodate its budget with the right experience, training and skills at an affordable cost. In this article, we discuss four areas of caution and attention your business must consider before engaging a partner for IT staff augmentation.
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CMS Development: Not Flashy, But a Necessary Component for Success!
When a business conceives a software application or a web presence, it is often more concerned with what the user or site visitors sees on the front-end. It must be appealing and attractive. But, the real magic happens behind the scenes and without good content management, what the visitor sees may be incomplete, inappropriate for their needs or badly organized.
Software Product Development Can Be Daunting! Engage Experts to Ensure Success!
When a business undertakes the development of a software product, it has a significant risk of failure. Without the right training, skills and resources, the business can spend a lot of time and money and end up with a product that may damage its market reputation or, worse yet, never be launched.
As an in-house IT manager, a CIO, a CTO or a business professional, you may already have grasped the critical need for additional help on an IT project – whether it is ongoing assistance or help for a standalone project. You see the full picture. You know your IT team is overwhelmed, you know their skill set and you know you can’t get the job done with the existing knowledge and resources you have. You also understand the importance of getting that job done quickly and effectively.
Software application development is not just a technical endeavor that requires programming or development skills. There are many other important aspects of software application development. Of course, the team will need the technical experience and skill to complete the development phase, but there are numerous other factors that will contribute to success.
Does this sound familiar? Your business has a great idea for a software product, maybe even a mobile application, but you aren’t sure how to proceed. Your in-house IT team is well-respected but they are already overwhelmed with projects and ongoing workload and you aren’t sure what skills you will need to employ to adequately address your software product requirements.
When a business considers the wisdom and benefit of Digital Transformation, it often thinks first of the cost and the chaos it anticipates and may think that the investment and disruption is not worth the effort. But, the benefits of Digital Transformation cannot be ignored. There are many reasons to consider this type of initiative, and we look at some of those in this article.
When a business has more IT projects and initiatives than it can handle, it will often look to hire more internal IT staff members. But hiring takes time, interviewing is imperfect and part time or full time employees require management, benefits and office space. While a business might need one-time project support, or ongoing support for development, maintenance and support, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to staffing. In addition to these issues, there is the very real issue of ongoing training and skills enhancement. That costs money and, when a team member is out for training, someone else must cover for that team member. So, what is a business to do?
Government & Public Sector Needs Expert Technology & Software Assistance!
If your enterprise is in Government or Public Sector, you know how tight budgets can be and how old technology can stymie your progress and your engagement with suppliers, partners, citizens, users and business team members. If your organization wants to engage software re-engineering services, custom software development, software product development services or any other services, you will want a Government And Public Service Technology Partner.
The world-renowned technology research firm, Gartner, has predicted a strategic focus on Digital Transformation in the coming years and that focus is appropriate. If businesses are to improve productivity and the quality and timeliness of decisions; if business leaders are to ensure a sustained competitive position and retain customers and employees, it is imperative that these businesses focus on improving data literacy and initiate a comprehensive Digital Transformation (Dx) strategy.
