Tip of the Week: Three Ways to Optimize Your Technology

Nowadays, technology and business are intimately interconnected, the success of your operations and processes largely informed by the tools you have in place. Let’s go over three ways you can help boost your potential success even further by implementing the right methods.

Make Mobility a Priority

Nowadays, business is in no way confined to the office—or even to a given space within an office. You and your team need to have the capability to work from ostensibly anywhere, and using the right technology greatly facilitates that. There are countless reasons that you and your team members might need to work from different locations. As a result, it only makes sense to ensure that everyone has access to the tools they need, wherever they happen to be working.

Mobile devices, along with technologies like the cloud, allow you and your team to do just that. 

Design Your Network Strategically

There are benefits to hardwired network connections, and there are also benefits to Wi-Fi. In order to really optimize your business’ network, it will help to determine where each approach will be most beneficial. Where will your Wi-Fi reach effectively, with access points in different places, and where will your weak spots be? Adjusting your strategy to address these issues may take some doing, but the benefits will be worth it in the end when your staff can effectively complete their tasks without encountering connectivity or access issues.

Lean on Experts for Assistance

Here’s the hard truth of the matter: even if a small business has an internal IT team, there’s a pretty good chance that this team will be overworked, simply due to how prevalent IT issues are. This is especially true if there’s no opportunity to monitor the business’ network for threats or developing issues. Many businesses don’t even have a dedicated IT department so much as a single employee whose tasks involve IT maintenance and management.

To facilitate this, businesses have the opportunity to turn to external providers…and as they do so, they should seek out managed service providers like Accucom. There are a few reasons for this, but the general gist is this: by working with an MSP, you have to worry about your IT considerably less and can therefore direct more of your energy towards more productive concerns and goals.

Accucom can assist you with all of the above, and much more. Give us a call at (02) 8825-5555 to learn more about how we can assist your business in otherwise making the most of your IT.