As a small business looking to grow, it is extremely important that your technology is on par with your rivals, or at least heading in that direction. Without keeping up with modern technology, it is likely that your company’s efficiency will lag behind, whilst the efficiency of your competitors’ businesses will get better and better. This will thus make their costs decrease and your costs stagnant. This could ultimately lead to you going out of business – something you naturally want to avoid.
Such technology that you should keep up to date with is most importantly the technology related to your business’s field of work. However, it is not limited to that. In order to make sure efficiency is high, you’ll also want to ensure that your servers are working to the best of their ability and that inter-business communication is easy. Due to the limited access to capital that a small business has, it is highly unlikely that the business will be able to create their own efficient IT team to ensure IT efficiency, and they will look to hiring an outside company.
This will allow them to take advantage of the resource pool and the expertise of such companies, allowing them to focus their own resources on their area of expertise. However, what is it that pushes small businesses to hire IT companies in the first place, and what are the benefits of doing so?
1. It is cost-effective
For a small business, creating an internal IT department is not only resource-draining but expensive, even if that “department” only consists of one employee. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, hiring people may be unnecessary if you will only use them for a few tasks a year, meaning that you’ll be paying for nothing. Secondly, hiring an external IT company will allow you to have access to a specialist in your specific problem area, and will thus be more efficient at tackling the issue (if you hire an IT man, he will likely have a good all-round knowledge of IT, but won’t be a specialist in every area). If you decide to hire an external IT company that will mean that your business will be able to direct its resources elsewhere, to where it specialises. This will likely improve efficiency and competitiveness, which can thus help you increase profits.
2. Cybersecurity
A little known fact: small and medium-sized businesses are the victims of cyber attack the majority of the time. As a result, it is extremely important to make sure your cyber security is up to scratch and hiring an IT company can help you to do this.
3. Technology
IT companies can advise you on what technology will help increase your business efficiency, and in some cases, they may even be able to offer you lucrative deals on that technology.
If you are looking to hire an IT company, be sure to check out IT support in Reading & Theale provided by Netzen Solutions Ltd.
