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This blog is misleading and leads the business owner and start up down the path to technology ruin. It is true that OnForce can be a good source for temporary technicians to do a job the business owner needs done, but how does the business owner know what needs to be done? How does the business owner set the technology plan to serve the present goals while remaining flexible and scalable to meet future needs?
It is very important to have an expert in business technology (CIO) provide the business owner with the tools and technology plan for the long term. It is not necessary to hire a full time CIO when there are organizations that deliver affordable technology for fixed, affordable, and predictable budgets while providing highly experienced engineering and business technology leadership throug structured, yet flexible programs.
Making technical decisions for the short term through a patchwork plan with OnForce or other organizations like them is wrong for the owner or startup business for two main reasons:
First it ultimately costs much more because the technical direction is made without experience or expertise in creating technology that creates business results. A short while down the road the decisions made today will need to be enhanced, undone, changed, or even discarded to achieve tomorrow's goals. Doing, undoing, redoing, remaking, altering are all expenses to accomplish one goal. This is not necessary and wastes time and money.
Second, with the owner involved in technology, the owner is mired in working IN the business when he/she should be working ON the business!
OnForce is not a good alternative for the business owner and ESPECIALLY not for the start up business.
Ed Becker, President
BeckITSystems, Inc.
(703) 740-9240
22570 Markey Court Suite 200
Dulles, VA 20166
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