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Upgrading Productivity Lowering Costs

This presentation by tomwidel addresses current issues and provides a plan to upgrade outdated computer systems in order to improve productivity, lower costs, and prepare for future expansion. The goal is to create a homogeneous environment, cut down on maintenance costs, and increase employee productivity.

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Upgrading Productivity Lowering Costs

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  1. Upgrading ProductivityLowering Costs Ideas for Today and Tomorrow Presented by tomwidel

  2. Current Issues • Our company is experiencing growth • Last year’s success doubled our staff • Management notices low productivity • Reports show increasing IT costs • Cause:OUTDATED COMPUTER SYSTEMS

  3. Goals and Objectives • Replace or upgrade current systems • Create homogeneous environment • Prepare plans for future expansion • Cut down on maintenance costs • Increase employee productivity

  4. Vision Statement • Company growth depends on technology • Upgraded computers will aid productivity • Upgrading now will save us money later • Our staff will be ahead of the competition • This time let technology work for us

  5. Today’s Situation • Current systems use variety of outdated hardware and software • New employees need to be trained how to use old technology • Software applications use “unfriendly” user interfaces making them hard to use

  6. Today’s Situation • Even minor problems require expertise of several IT professionals to be dealt with • Large IT staff causes increased cost of maintenance of such systems • Overall productivity is decreased

  7. How Did We Get Here? • Technology planning is nonexistent • Our business data is spread over incompatible systems that slow us down • New additions to our old system only make it more unstable and add more complexity to its already complex shape

  8. How Did We Get Here? • Problems are dealt with as they come up • Current flaws are solved by “quick fixes” and continue to reoccur again and again • Our huge IT staff is unable to document or share all their work with each other

  9. Where Do We Go From Here? • Current advancements in technology provide much cheaper and effective tools to run a business • Using latest technologies all business data can be easily shared within a well-designed system

  10. Where Do We Go From Here? • Create a homogeneous environment throughout the entire company • Upgrade current systems and skills to meet the latest standards • Prepare set of procedures that deal with problems before they happen

  11. Cost of Improvement • Costs associated with system upgrades • Outside consulting help with planning • Employee and IT staff training sessions • Converting old business data to work with new system

  12. End Results • Reduced but fully specialized IT staff • More productive employees with new set of up-to-date skills • Very stable and compatible system • Overall lower maintenance costs

  13. Summary • We can lower our maintenance costs • New system will boost our productivity • Level the playing field with competition • Make the technology work for us

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