No matter what your business situation was in 2020, all entrepreneurs are currently asking the tough questions about 2021: What does it take for politicians and scientists to find common ground when it comes to the pandemic? When will people be able to go on with their lives? How are employees ever supposed to go back to the office?
Answers to these questions are not easy to find, and the uncertainty is making many CEOs, CIOs, and CFOs cautious when it comes to IT spending for the next 12-24 months. However, there are a subset of businesses already thinking beyond the post-pandemic IT questions because of one simple reason: They built their corporate IT for resilience.
Businesses with a resilient IT strategy could provide IT services to employees even when faced with challenges to their normal operations—such as a global pandemic where everyone is forced to stay home. For those businesses with resilient IT, a city lockdown resulting in an entire office having to work from home overnight didn’t throw the CIO and his already-overworked team into crisis mode. Resilience doesn’t mean your business is immune from problems; it means you can easily bounce back from inevitable business disruptions. In our increasingly connected and always-on world, IT resilience is the key to navigating through operational ambiguity.
Building IT resilience into your company is a strategic move that all entrepreneurs should consider. Amaxra consultants helped numerous businesses build resilience into their IT over the past few years based on Microsoft technologies and services. Even before the 2020 pandemic, Amaxra was deploying business solutions and processes enabling IT resilience for our customers. As such, Amaxra consultants recommend these four things every business can do to built up their IT resilience:
Add cyber-security at every level: Effective management of potential cyber-security threats are critical for business IT resilience. But shifting corporate data to the cloud and employees to remote work has increased the potential attack surfaces for cyber criminals. Every resilient IT organization should take steps to secure cloud-based storage in order to prevent data leakage, consolidate their various SaaS apps to avoid licensing issues, and configure all employees—remote or onsite—to sign into the corporate network using multi-factor authentication… all of which Amaxra builds into every customer’s IT solution from day one.
Regardless of where your company is on your journey towards business IT resilience, Amaxra can help. Amaxra is a Gold-level Microsoft Partner with extensive experience in deploying Microsoft 365 solutions. Our consultants will assess your current environment to determine the steps you can take to increase your IT resilience today no matter what tomorrow brings.