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Over the years I’ve worked with hundreds of clients to help improve their technology. Here are their top challenges:
- Lack of effectively using technology to communicate with their customers, partners and staff
- The need to constantly balance between implementing cutting-edge technology vs. using outdated technology
- The need to continually improve the skills set of their technical team
- The need to effectively train staff on new technology (hardware & software) and find the balance between lack of proper training vs. too much training
- Do it in-house vs. outsource domestically or even internationally
- Figuring the “right” technology to implement vs. going on a goose chase to accommodate someone’s limited knowledge or subjective preferences
- Leveraging technologies for dramatic success vs. a time drain for all
- Minimizing or eliminating inside or outside vulnerability
- Making sense of too many options
- Knowledge management to make sure it does not evaporates when someone steps out
- Technology is not an enabler to support business growth and the strategy
- High tech, low touch
- Letting technology replace the human touch
- Letting humans perform tasks better suited for technology
- Not planning for the future
What have you seen as the top challenges out there?
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