How Do I Keep My IT Practices Up To Date

Here are some ways to keep your IT Practices up to date:

Internal Best Practices

Take time now to develop some standard IT Policies such as Upgrades, Acceptable Use, and/or Bring Your Own Device. This way you have repeatable processes for each annual assessment and employees are aware of your expectations.

Industry Experts

If you work with an IT service provider, make sure to find a partner who doesn’t just constantly push NEW products at you.

Instead, partner with someone who takes the time to understand your needs, and works WITH you to find the best solution. 

Resources

We've written and compiled a series of books on this subject. Check out these books that can help you build a framework for keeping up-to-date on IT: "A CEO’s Survival Guide to Information Technology," and "I Don’t Want Your Job, Is Co-Managed IT Services the Right Fit For You."  You can download them here: https://www.simplex-it.com/books

Have a plan. How frequently do you replace workstations and laptops? Servers? Switches? Do your business plans take IT into account, and vice versa? Your plan doesn't have to be detailed, but it needs, at the very least, to exist. That plan should involve both Business and IT management.