After a disappointing Budget for business and the gathering momentum of spending cuts, Peter Deacon, director of technology and strategy at SaintGroup, provides essential tips for business transformation that can improve operations while controlling IT expenditure.
In an uncertain economic climate, business and IT managers are striving to maintain market share or drive growth. To achieve this, they will need ever more flexible but cost-efficient IT systems that support core operations - and unleash the further potential of their workforce. Making this happen when budgets are being consistently squeezed may seem like the impossible task, but it is feasible with careful planning of resources and rethinking of networks’ capabilities, using sophisticated managed IT services and taking advantage of the consumerisation of IT.