While it’s become clear to most organizations that information and other growth technologies can help them grow faster and more profitably, it remains far from clear to many that those technologies will help them grow. Executives have seen too much investment in technology infrastructure that really never quite works. They’ve seen, or worse sunk, too much investment in systems building or package implementation efforts that really never quite pay off.
These activities are expensive. Skilled IT people are expensive, and in high demand. They’re difficult to find, and even more difficult to keep. To compile a winning IT team, you need an “alphabet-soup” array of competencies represented by words such as .NET, ERP, CRM, VoIP, VPN, SAN, Sharepoint, and the like on their resumes. While you might only need this expertise “now and then” you end up paying for it full time to have it around. Even then, you can’t possibly cover all your technical needs, so you hire expensive body-shop-bodies to help fill in the gaps.
Of course, the reason for the IT utility is the body of mission-critical and high value IT applications running on it. This is where so many growing companies struggle. Most hire teams of people — both consultants and internally — and they begin a tried but not always true process of identifying requirements, defining resource and time parameters, and beginning work.
The problem is, in a rapidly growing business, these requirements change. They have to. And that’s assuming that the management team was able to find the time and leadership to put together a quickly out of date “strawman” in the first place.
The better model — the core model of companies leveraging technology best around the world — is to put in place a team of people who are rapidly and iteratively creating system capability, vetting it with key users, refining it in real-life practice, and moving on. This approach is dramatically more effective, and efficient. But it requires a team of committed people with a range of competencies normally too expensive for most growing companies to fully absorb.
The Lazorpoint Growth Technology Engine provides you this dedicated team of individuals focused on iteratively designing, constructing, refining, and implementing system capability that has value to your business. The result: At a cost equal to or less than any competing choice you have, we provide faster implementation of system capability that is more dead-on to the needs and preferences of your business and its people.
