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12

Why create a tech plan for my small business? Identify Your IT Roadmap to Catalyse Business Growth

Technology, Audit, IT, Business Goals

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Have you noticed how quickly your technology setup has expanded over time without you realising? One day you had just a laptop, licenses and some software; now there are numerous tools and devices you did not sign up for!

Recent findings of the SaaS Management Index demonstrated that small businesses employing less than 500 people use an average of 172 cloud apps - many without even an IT department!

There are countless moving parts, and it can be easy for all these pieces to work against each other without an organized plan in place. People improvise, systems don't communicate effectively and money is wasted on activities that won't help grow the business. An IT roadmap may provide useful gui...

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