Virtual IT Consulting the right way
The majority of IT Consulting companies make their effectiveness as Consultants of little to no avail. Why? You may ask. Because these Owners often digress and focus on technologies and play with it… and view their clients as a distant lower priority. However, if you get this part of “IT” wrong, you will doom your IT consulting company to “clueless geek” status. It’s crucial that you understand one extremely important principle here: Recruiting and retaining clients is tantamount to your growth, confidence and stability as a company. Keeping up with the latest and greatest IT should never take a priority over your IT consulting company’s mission objectives!
In other words, don’t get side-tracked with the newest mobile devices running as a front end to a cloud back end, the new open source OS or applications. Become a hunter and capture the business opportunities surrounding how you solve your customer’s biggest business problems with your recommended IT solutions. The real mission of IT consulting company is capturing business, retaining and generating new business.
How is this done?
You can do this by offering cloud solutions. Leverage automated solutions. Think Smart, Act Smart, be Smart as they always said in the Navy to me.
To put this all in perspective with your computer consulting company, you need to understand and embrace the concept of virtual IT consulting.
Virtual IT or VIT is what allows your IT consulting company to function as an extension of your clients. Your computer consulting company essentially becomes the outsourced IT department for your clients. This becomes a Win-Win, for example your clients can get real cutting-edge Fortune 500 IT consulting along with making their budgets go further in meeting their day to day objectives.
As owner or manager of an IT consulting company in this role, you will most likely become the CIO (chief information officer), CTO (chief technology officer), IT manager or entire IT Department business clients. And just like any well-rounded internal IT department, your virtual IT consulting business will need to provide, , a complete nuts and bolts up to CTO solution that includes services like help desk, desktop support, network administration, web design, SEO, IT engineering, security, training, procurement, and asset management… because anything short of the complete virtual IT solution will leave consulting money on the table.
The Bottom Line
Most IT consulting companies are making a huge mistake when it comes to their small business endeavors… because these IT consulting company owners get too focused on the technology, at the expense of the business opportunities. In order for your IT consulting company to prosper, make sure that you understand the concept of virtual IT and build virtual IT into every major business decision for your IT consulting company has before its helm. To continue learning more about how you can use virtual IT to grow your computer consulting company, pay us a visit and fill out the Contact Us form, for the network assessment and 1 hour free IT Consulting to your Business. Visit us at http://www.hpdit.com
Efficiency through Technology and Quality by HPD Global SaaS Solutions
These days it is most important to take the business battle to strategic design. Some concerns with the Economy as it is are to find cheaper ways to increase efficiency without hurting quality. Technology is one strong avenue to do that through. Some careful attention should be given by management into various areas surrounding this. Consider the following:
What areas of your work flow can be automated?
How utilized is your present technology?
Have you considered efficiency through leverage of technology?
Could you double your output with quality by doing things different?
These questions help us better determine as management what areas we should push to resolution on a more level approach. I am going to make a bold statement about our present economic situation. I believe that the businesses the utilize creativity, strategic design, and technology toward doing things smarter (different) will be the companies that take us further into the new millenium and will be tomorrow’s successful companies. You have heard that the best way to win is thinking outside the box. Technology when implemented successfully with intelligent engineers will not only yield success but a peace of mind. You will want to ensure that you deal with solid Technology Experts when making these changes. To an extent it will involve vision and entrepreneurship, but it can be done. So this will be an area that all technology management will face if they have not faced it so far. It is the dynamics of where Global Business is going, you just have to think outside the box and be the first to the fight. HPD Global has multiple SaaS solutions you should contact us to save money.
Using Ubuntu Server as a Desktop and Cost Savings
Cost Savings and Technology advantages of Ubuntu Server
Most of you are familiar with GPL/GNU Open Source Software. I wanted to recommend a highly stable and cheap to free open source server. Ubuntu meaning ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people’s allegiances and relations with each other. The meaning behind the them is something quite intrinsic to the creation of the technology. In a humanity sense open source software allows individuals, groups, or entire communities to contribute in some way to the development of the software. The overall output of the product is of higher quality, testing, and also more in line with what the user wants.
Since Ubuntu open source you have the option to change it. So yes this is Linux. I wanted to state however that Ubuntu is the most supported version of Linux out there, and that you can do anything with it as you would a Windows Server. You have have the option to turn it into a desktop with a simple command line entry such as this:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
The wonderful thing about open source is you feel or get empowered through the transparency of what you observe. Also how you can customize and change things to better suit the needs of your IT department or Organization. So now on to the advantages. Ubuntu is a light weight server out of the box, or you can make it more robust. It can easily be converted into any type of back end server ie: File, Web, Email, Media, Authentication, Proxy, Code Repository, Load Balancing. Just about anything you want it can be turned into that. So let me point you to the documentation for reference so you will be able to observe and learn or consider the cost savings you can benefit from.
At HPD Global – VIT Cloud Services we run Ubuntu and several other open source solutions on top of traditional Microsoft Windows Server. We feel this brings greater value to our customers as they have the option to tailor the technologies we offer to better suit their needs. Contact us today for more IT Profitability.
Fortune 500 IT Practices: Small to Medium Businesses
The Questions:
Don’t you wish you could have a budget to allow your IT departments to flourish without the additional cost of a full time staff, additional contractors, or H1B’s to further explode your budget into the point of no return?
Don’t you want to know if your IT infrastructure us functioning as successfully as that of a Fortune 500 company?
If you answered yes to either of these questions, then look no further; High Performance Delivered Global IT Consulting (100% US Based with US employees) is here to help you with all your technical needs.
With over 30 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) we have the solutions that will help you cut cost and increase your performance for your day to day Information Technology operations.
