Brian Shea, MBX Medical Billing Experts, LLC, VSTRATEGY, LLC, Chief Information Officer / Chief Compliance Officer
Outsourcing IT Workloads Provides Valuable Business Opportunity
- The big challenge many organizations with smaller IT staffs face is finding time to focus on IT initiatives while working to keep systems and operations running.
- The value you gain from a service provider depends on the service provider you choose. Vet service providers to find ones that are capable of understanding your business and becoming a partner, acting as an internal IT group.
“Once those workloads are shifted from your internal IT, you can start focusing on more strategic initiatives.”
According to Brian Shea, who is both a provider and user of managed IT services, the biggest challenge many organizations with smaller IT staffs face is finding time to focus on IT initiatives while working to keep systems and operations running. That’s why he recommends outsourcing commodity IT functions so IT management can focus on delivering greater strategic value to the business. “Patching, help desk, and even things like cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) are good candidates for outsourcing to a managed service,” says Shea. “Once those workloads are shifted from your internal IT, you can start focusing on more strategic initiatives.”
This is an excerpt from 8 Experts On Outsourcing IT For Strategic Advantage. The eBook was generously sponsored by Ntiva.
