These days, in order to be at par with your co-competitors, whether you are in the manufacturing or service industry, adapting to the latest emerging business technology trends is an advantage. Not only do you give your customers peace of mind in terms of safety and security but also adapting to these latest business technology trends allows your company to be more cost-efficient – thus increasing productivity and creating more room for process improvement as well as employee development. Alright, so you probably are thinking about how you will start and what of kind help you need. This is where IT Consulting companies will come in. But first, to give an idea, there are types of IT consulting companies looking at the solution deployment – vendor-tied and vendor-agnostic consulting companies. What are the differences and why does knowing what type of IT company matters? Wider relationship with other providers Vendor-tied IT consulting companies are usually tied up with certain solutions providers. However, vendor-agnostic IT consulting company, it has a wider relationship and knowledge regarding solutions vendors – features, reliability, and effectiveness. So, instead of being restricted and limited about these vendors’ tech features, a vendor-agnostic IT consulting company has a wider scope and portfolio of solutions vendors that can cater to your business technology needs, strengths and weaknesses. Ensures Compatibility and better Customization A vendor-tied consulting company could be very knowledgeable about the features with their respective solutions vendor partner but, it is prone to restricting and confining your business technology within the boundaries of their tech products. Vendor-agnostic on the other hand has a wider scope of “relationships” with multiple vendors that give your business more options for better customization. Why better customization is important? – in most cases for hardware, for example, it is easier to do replication of hardware parts than the equipment provided by an original equipment provider. This is also true for the software systems we deploy in our business. Imagine the cost savings you can get by ensuring what you deploy has high “compatibility” and “customization” for future process or business model modifications. After all, a one-size-fits-all concepts in business technology rarely works Waste no effort and Money There are cases when a solution is deployed, but not all its features are compatible with your internal process. What if you already signed a contract? How can your business benefit from the under-utilized features which you are already paying for? How can you keep up with these losses? Just think about these questions you might be facing due to solution restrictions just because it’s the only solutions vendor available. In addition, vendor-agnostic does not have sales targets since they are not associated with these tech solutions vendors. You are assured what you are deploying is customized and it is what your business really needs. At the end of the day, the business processes shouldn’t be the ones adjusting to the tech solutions, it should be the other way around. Transparency & Streamlined Communication Establishing a single point of contact is so important because it gives you that ease of minding all the tasks such as meeting and coordinating with all the solutions vendors. The vendor-agnostic consulting company ensures what they recommend mirrors what you need over having a predefined solution by a vendor. The communication is designed to establish a clear understanding of what you are about to deploy and spend on. Thus, key activities leading to your decision-making are the utmost top priority. Conclusion IT Consulting Companies help you and guide you to be more efficient in making appropriate decisions when it comes to your technology needs. Whether it’s a vendor-tied or vendor-agnostic type of consulting company, they ensure that you don’t waste your time and effort on searching for the best technology for your business, especially nowadays, there is a wide array of vendor solutions you can find out there but not all of them match your business tech needs. However, in terms of more reliable customization and better process efficiency, a vendor-agnostic type of consultancy may give you more advantages as it gives you more technology solutions options to empower your business. Beyontel is a vendor-agnostic IT consulting company that highly specializes VoIP and Unified communications (cloud-based) that can guide you with the late shift to remote working or hybrid set-up. Consult us now!
Who is Beyontel?
These days, when we think of projects related to IT infrastructure deployment or modification, we automatically look for a consulting company for smooth execution and implementation. However, most of the time, IT consulting companies you may find these days are vendor-tied – these are companies that have a partnership with the solution provider. This is where Beyontel stands out among the vast number of IT consulting companies by being a vendor-agnostic IT consulting company that specializes VoIP and Unified Communications cloud-based. While other consulting company has pre-determined solution vendor for your business, Beyontel evaluates and assess your business needs prior to recommending a solution vendor. Internal Resources for technology-related decisions What most customers do when trying to look for IT products and services is run their own research over the web. However, this can be overwhelming for the customers and may lead to total confusion as tons of information can be retrieved online and not all this information is relevant. Due to this, it will be very difficult for them to decide and choose the right technology for the business especially if they do not have the right resources to identify this on their own. Beyontel comes in as an expert and specialist in this field and helps the customers to target which technology solutions they need for their business. By partnering with the right IT consultants, customers can prevent mistakes such as spending their money on products they can’t fully utilize its benefit and signing a contract for products that are not compatible with their existing tools and systems. Being a vendor-agnostic consulting company Without a prior agreement with other vendors or solution providers, Beyontel comes into play and addresses technology-related issues prior to the decision-making. As a vendor-agnostic IT consulting company, Beyontel is able to look at each individual need and identify the best product available. This is a great advantage because it helps to ensure that the functionality provided is more relevant to the specific needs of the customer. As an overview of what Beyontel does as an IT consulting company, it organizes meetings with the vendor and in some cases provides them demos and Proof of concept, assisting them through the process in a form of recommendation or consulting. In addition, Beyontel can even go down the path of negotiating with the vendors in order to get the best deal in the market. Doing so, give them the confidence that the platform they choose will be the right fit so they can leverage increasing productivity or utilize it optimally. To sum it all up, Beyontel works with the vendor but for the customer. Book your appointment today.
Understand How to Optimize Hybrid Set-up Productivity Before You Regret!
Hybrid set-up allows employees to have flexibility in terms working remotely and, in the office – well thanks to the innovation within the Information and Communication technology or ICT space this became possible from an almost sci-fi idea back then! By the end of 2021, more and more businesses are remodeling their business operations to adapt to hybrid set up. In fact, according to a statistical data by Gallup, about 59% of employee respondents preferred Hybrid as their work location. However, most of the businesses transitioning from a traditional work arrangement to a hybrid set up ask the question ‘how to better boost the productivity’? What are the things we need to consider? Here’s how to better optimize your productivity as you transition to a hybrid Set-up: Define your Boundaries. As an organization, it is important for you to set boundaries to ensure alignment across all employees. Remember due to this change, you may potentially lose your full visibility and control during work hours, what more if your business operates 24/7? By creating regulations surrounding the work you set-up objectively, employees are aware of what are the expectations. Arranging a regular catch-up meeting, feedback sessions, creating group chats, and even setting up an on-call dial bridge in the telephony create the desired visibility not only on the availability of you employees but also not missing any opportunity for your business. Organize and proper delegation. Looking at your tasks and activities, which ones are required to be processed in the office? What are critical to operations which best to perform physically in the office? Who are the employees efficient in doing all these processes? Do we need to perform upskilling? These are the relevant questions may help to better boost the overall productivity. Imagine someone who is fairly new and was given a difficult task and is working remotely – no immediate help and the time is running. Assigning tasks to individuals according to their expertise as well as appropriate work location help everyone utilizes their respective time effectively! No walls, encourage an open dialogue. Unlike in a traditional set-up where you can just easily communicate and figure out issues by asking someone directly or by just observing, hybrid set-up gives you almost zero visibility on what is happening in the operations as your employees are literally everywhere! Encouraging an open communication within the organization helps establish trust and unity among all the members. Increase internal communications, schedule a recurring newsletter, redesign the engagement activities catering to the new set-up, and management to impose respectful relationship within the organization. Celebrate wins and recognize. Celebrating someone’s achievement and recognizing recent accomplishments big and small may help boost the motivation and inspiration. By doing this, it sends a clear message to the organization that regardless of their work location, their output completes the big picture – the success of the business! Think about the motivation to fuel the drive your employees. At the end of the day, productivity isn’t just all about the output because in time it may lead to burn out, but it also it talks about the willingness to stay motivated and be consistent. Proper tools and support. Coming from the business standpoint, we expect our employees to be efficient in what they do – but do they have the right tools and support they need? Think about responsiveness metric for example, how can an employee be measured for responsiveness if our internal communication isn’t that reliable? Systems lags, tools which as highly dependent on various support platforms, and complicated IT management are just some of the major concerns why there is a low productivity for a hybrid set-up. There must be a way to simplify these in order to better support our employees. System tools work as a catalyst to be more efficient and effective. Conclusion Optimizing the productivity for a hybrid setup can be challenging but definitely workable with the right planning, execution and tools in place. If you planning to transition or probably underdone the switch but having issues, remember that the key to optimizing your business productivity in hybrid setup is acknowledging the “change” that goes along with the innovation. Part of this change are the continuous integration of balancing work and life in the day-to-day business operations within our organization. With this, business operations need to be flexible with all these changes in order to accommodate the targeted steps towards the implementation. How is your business’ system coping up with the shift? Beyontel is an IT Consulting company that can help you streamline, analyze, and simplify your IT management infrastructure to help you improve your overall internal communication and performance. Learn which VoIP and cloud-based unified communication vendors best suit for your business. Talk to us now.