Practice Areas - Network Design
Today’s corporate network is more than just a communications medium connecting employees on a common system.  Now more than ever, the corporate network is a strategic business tool—an indispensable weapon that businesses rely on to support their day-to-day operations.
 
According to a recent study by McKinsey & Company, IT investments fall into three basic categories:
 
  1. “Staying in the race: Technology investments that maintain and enhance basic IT services such as core business applications, regulatory compliance, email and Web services.
  2.  “Winning the race”: Implementing technologies that help a business gain a competitive advantage by significantly lowering costs or improving productivity by automating an online loan-approval process, for instance, or automatically providing call-center agents with a customer’s service history.
  3. “Changing the rules”: Deploying innovative, high-risk/high-reward technologies that open new markets or enable the business to offer new products or services that are substantially different and more desirable than anything else on the market, redefining the competitive landscape.
 
All businesses, according to the report, invest to some degree in each of these three basic categories.
 
However, the percentage of the IT budget that a business commits to each category depends largely on its competitive position and its future aspirations.
 
All businesses, even the most conservative, strive to be more competitive.  Many companies have IT budgets plagued with “operational” expenditures because the existing infrastructure leaves them no choice. 
 
Recent advancements have significantly reduced the cost of implementing the underlying foundation of today’s corporate networks, in turn liberating a considerable chunk of the IT budget.  This can leave tremendous resources available to safely invest in leading-edge “winning the race” and “changing the rules” technologies.
 
The I.T. Workshop can design and engineer a high-performance and secure network to fit your budget that enables you to "Win The Race" and have a competitive advantage.
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