Businesses rely more than ever on technology to keep their ship afloat. To keep your business smooth sailing, you are going to need a team who can: troubleshoot tech disasters, provide solutions for the plethora of common cloud computing issues, understand the importance of data backups and recovery, know the ins and out of a business communications system, and most importantly provide a top-notch security package. Partners Plus has over 30 years of experience providing those services to various types of businesses.
It’s hard to predict the future. Just think of all that has happened in the world in the last two years. From the COVID-19 pandemic to supply chain issues to inflation and war, no one could have predicted these events early enough to be adequately prepared.
These challenges make it more difficult for companies to succeed and achieve their long-term objectives.
When the needs of your employees, customers, and the market change suddenly, you must be ready to make the necessary shift. Proactive small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can achieve this by practicing organizational agility.
Organizational agility is the flexibility and coordinated effort to quickly address rapidly changing market conditions. It empowers your people, processes, and technologies to change direction quickly as needed, avoiding extended downtime and revenue loss.
Importance of organizational agility
Agility-focused businesses can manage services with their growth flexibly, independently, and productively. This improves their efficiency and reduces costs.
With this approach, you don’t predetermine the path forward. Instead, you make iterative changes based on feedback loops generated throughout the growth process, such as from employees and other key stakeholders. Once you’ve made changes to accommodate all the constructive recommendations, you can prepare to make additional changes based on future suggestions. Since your clients are also part of the process, you can use their feedback to identify priorities and make changes.
What is the difference between agility and scalability?
Scalability is the ability to increase or decrease your resources to meet critical needs. On the other hand, agility is the ability to react quickly to a situation, adjust with minimal downtime or loss, and keep moving forward indefinitely or permanently.
In simple terms, scalability refers to the ability to scale up and down in response to changing circumstances, while agility is all about the ability to move left or right to avoid a stumbling block.
To ensure that your growth story is blemish-free as a growing company, you’ll need to be scalable and agile. To achieve that, you need to take care of a few things*:
Thoroughly define your target audience
Delivering value to your customers consistently is critical. Make every effort to establish trust and transparency with them.
Gain a better understanding of the factors that influence the value
Although many businesses have identified their core customer base, they don’t fully comprehend what motivates people to buy. Give customers prototypes and samples, then observe what they do to get a better picture. Continuously evaluate and record their preferences.
Approach growth in an iterative manner
In a highly unpredictable business world, where an unpleasant surprise can occur at any moment, it’s better to grow iteratively. This allows you to learn as you go and adapt your business accordingly.
Develop self-managing, integrated teams
Create small, self-managed teams with all the skills and knowledge your organization will most likely require. Cross-train members so they can adapt to the needs of each iteration and figure out the best way to organize themselves to get the job done quickly.
Create a culture of constant improvement
Setbacks and challenges are common in business, but what matters is that you pick your business up after each fall and try to improve without hesitation.
Developing organizational agility may demand significantly more time and effort from you than you can devote. If that’s something that worries you, simplify your journey toward organizational agility by partnering with an expert managed service provider (MSP) like us.
Contact us today to schedule a no-obligation consultation.
About Partners Plus
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Partners Plus began in 1991 as an outsourced IT department after working as the Director of Programming and a Consultant for six years. For 30+ years now, we have been 100% committed to ensuring small- and medium-sized business owners have the most reliable and professional virtual CIO in the Delaware Valley. Our dedicated team of professionals will solve your IT nightmares quickly and without confusion on your part.
Our customer-specific memberships deliver your needs without overstepping your budget boundaries. From cloud services and data backups to ransomware prevention and Dark Web monitoring, Partners Plus is here to work with you and your expert company, dependable outsourced IT support and security.
Partners Plus has locations and services the following areas:
Managed IT Services in Philadelphia – Managed IT Services in Delaware – Managed IT Services in Malvern
