How is your business in Japan?
Is it growing fast enough?
If you wanted to make a change in the organizational structure would you be in full control? Companies have enough to worry about without the added anxiety caused by having a computer system about to collapse. Do you feel confident in your IT staff to keep your systems fully operation when you really need them?
Why do the IT staff give your business staff such attitude to technical problems?
How many times have they threatened to leave?
If they do leave will the systems still be operational a month after they have gone? How about a week after they have gone ?
With the economic climate what stops you from lowering your IT costs?
Do you really need an inhouse IT department ?
Japan focus
Project management
System Audit
Using Evington Grey
System Audit Tools
Business is difficult and it is not going to get any easier. Your competition is growing stronger and you feel you can no longer suspend the status quo. The IT systems may seem like magic but in reality it is simple ideas shrouded in technical jargon and inefficient coding. Technology should be the servant to business not the other way round. The tale should not wag the dog.
The first step in freeing your company up from the current Technological constraints is the documentation of business processes and the technology used to support them. Begin by mapping which systems are in place and how they are realized. You may find that a large percentage of the machines in the machine room can be scrapped. In addition to a cost savings related to support, licenses and electricity you also have a reduced risk of fire and increased your work space.
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When the mapping of crucial business processes to facilitating systems has been completed you can begin the risk assessment. Risk comes in many forms from a real risk of data loss to a financial risk possibly related to lack of licenses.