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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Building a Leaner IT Organization

With the skyrocketing costs to do business, many corporations today are outsourcing significant portions of their companies to specialized firms that can handle specific enterprise functions in a much more efficient manner. For the most part, this has meant outsourcing tedious, repetitive jobs, such as data entry and customer support, however, the same outsourcing principle applied to these sectors of the enterprise model can be applied to other parts as well, such as with IT.

In most enterprise settings, IT organizations play only a secondary role to the business’s bottom line. While they are essential to the success of the enterprise as a whole, the IT department often simply supports other departments by providing them with digital solutions that aid in automation, strengthen process adherence, and other functions.
Ultimately, due to this inherent nature of IT departments in most corporations, IT support functions that are not central to keeping core systems and confidential information storage systems operational are ripe for outsourcing.

With nonessential, noncritical IT functions outsourced to experienced service providers, enterprises benefit from leaner, meaner IT organizations that are focused solely on keeping mission-critical systems maintained, saving the organization as a whole heaps in operations costs that would have otherwise been allocated to other extraneous functions.

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