How do you make the call through investment in new technology versus maintaining the status quo?
Every year in January IT analyst firms deliver output in predictions for the year. While the last few years were a little dark, looking up with technology is planned expenditure this year to grow between 5% - 7% according to Forrester and Gartner.
It is clear that a priority technology investment will again also for customers who want to restore from the hard lost only a few years into the recession ground - at the same time it can an internal minefield for leaders succeed. Executives regularly ask expenditure below stall and make with what they already have. This means that some companies use technologies that several generations are old.
Hit the auto industry blues
During the recession one was on the automotive industry and its suppliers and partners of sectors on the strongest hit all over the world. In 2009, a major customer in automatic production by massive changes wanted as companies navigate the bankruptcy proceedings, led in the formation of a new society with new owners. The company delayed a desktop update how many customers had during this time, to stay on Windows XP and to avoid, the costs and the interruption update select.
In the summer of 2010, most of the staff of the company were still use Office 2003. While it would be a time of corporate restructuring to suppress deployments, but the contrary chose the executives of the company do a typical action. Many want to transition from the Lotus Notes and cloud based technologies, move in the direction of an aggressive has completed enterprise-wide adoption of Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. The company almost 30,000 capacity deployed in just two months! A bold move for a company is in his position, some might say.
Why did they do it? The execs told us that they believed that by update, it would achieve higher productivity gains as your stay on older technology. A to study economic impact of Microsoft Office 2010, conducted by Forrester, agrees. The study found a payback period of five months and a net productivity of $1,483 per information worker over three years. That's millions of dollars savings for medium-sized to large enterprises.
The company also knew that his workers require a modern software experience were. Workers demand was an important driver for its rapid deployment. When people are able to work faster, collaborate more easily and produce better documents with technology, who want to actually use them, is a company more likely to achieve bottom line benefits from your investment.
Designing the most innovative technology strategy for your organization against budget constraints and objectives is no light Unterfangen-- and I do not pretend to be on the answers. But I will be the case for keeping your employees on current technologies, when possible make.
A 2011 Forrester Consulting study of 240 it leaders in Europe and North America found that this company the latest productivity software, say that they are even more effective in integration in team collaboration, document management, business intelligence and other applications. Participants reported, the cost of software implementation, integration with applications, remote access and security to manage new software makes it easy.
Lately despite these advantages have I some CIOs tell me that their entry-level and mid-level employees need not the latest tools. This observation always leaves me my head scratching. These information workers are finally, produce most of the documents which seep to the Summit of the Organization for decision making. Should they not the right tools to help, they work with maximum efficiency and effectiveness?
Whether you Microsoft technology or not, check which current technology can do for your human - and the potential impact of maintaining older systems. The answer may not be as cut and dried as it seems. Perhaps you can not afford not to improve.
-Takeshi Numoto, Vice President of corporate office
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