What are your options to manage your company’s technology?
Companies currently delivering highly qualified professional and skilled personnel are reaching an annual cumulative revenue of more than $ 130 Billion in the US. The primary question is what happens when traditional staffing—which is highly transactional and often lacks flexibility—no longer serves a business’ needs from a value-based partnership perspective?
Today, many enterprise-level businesses with complex technology skillset requirements have reached critical mass with staffing providers, left with too many individual contributors, management nightmares, and a lack of tangible results. How did they get there?
Depending on how companies engage with key business associates and partners, they typically invest company resources in three ways: staffing, managed (or project-based) services, or consulting.
- Consulting: Solves a business problem with a blend of strategy and expert resources.
- Staffing: Provides single contributors who focus on a specific competency area with minimal strategic value.
- Managed (or Project-Based) Services: Offers a flexible approach that allows companies to work with an MSP, providing additional capacity with expert teams and resources to alleviate management
Is it time for your business to outsource your Managed IT Services?
Managed IT Services alleviate many of staffing’s pain points and can be tailored to drive significant value in a more flexible and agile approach. When considering managed service providers (MSPs), the business buyer must assess its feasibility for their business needs, then determine if it will fill the void.
To start, businesses should identify areas of need or have a project area that requires an integrated team of resources to maintain specific processes, which are usually tied to discrete yet critical deliverables. The functions should be definable, repetitive, and able to be optimized by the vendor partner. A business must be able to establish boundaries and define the expected output of a team on a consistent basis.
Once the criteria are identified and the path forward becomes clear, a Managed IT Services provider can step in to handle those tasks and provide additional value by reducing management burdens and improving the quality of resources.
When compared side-by-side, here’s how staffing and managed services stack up:
| In-House IT Staffing | Managed IT Services |
| Single contributors with specific skill sets | Team of expert resources with domain knowledge |
| Client assumes project risk | Client and vendor share project risk |
| Deliverables are the responsibility of the business | Deliverables are the vendor’s responsibility, anchored with SLAs |
| Quantity focused | Quality focused on best practices |
| Loosely defined tasks | Well-defined and repeatable tasks |
| Minimal reach-back into vendor organization for thought leadership and best practices | Significant reach-back to thought leaders from partner organization and oversight by SMEs |
| Varying sources of accountability | Single-source accountability integrated with business needs |
| Less control over individuals and associated tasks | Greater control over process, quality, and management |
| Transactional models often lack flexibility | Flexible Models |
| Low level of quality assurance | High level of quality assurance |
How Spry Squared can help with your outsourced or in-house Managed IT Services.
Spry Squared, Inc. is where Managed IT Services, IT Recruiting and Information Technology Consulting collide! Spry Squared is a multi-dimensional Managed IT Services and IT Consulting firm founded by Linda Tousley Spry and Steve Spry. Spry Squared is an IT Consulting company with a creative twist.
Information Technology is truly changing at the speed of light and you need a quick and nimble company to keep pace with these advances. At Spry Squared, Inc., we are the very definition of quick and nimble. Our managing partners have years of project-based IT experience. We deliver SME in our approach where regulatory governance is critical and identify industry standards assisting our client with readiness assessments to achieve compliance. Innovations and trends that are essential to the success of your business, we will deliver the services and support essential for your business.
Whether you need out-sourced Managed IT Services or help in hiring in-house IT support, Spry Squared takes away the burden of administrative work. We do all the interviewing, on-boarding, and train resources as an integral part of our services. This depth of knowledge and pattern of shared risk ensures a level of quality assurance that is not always available in a staffing model.
Spry Squared is a smart pick for all your Information Technology needs with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Australia, and currently working with our clients in Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Washington DC, and Virginia. We serve clients across the globe. With proven experts in IT Managed Service, IT Recruiting and IT Consulting, Spry Squared will help you identify your challenges and provide a solution. Call us to learn how we can help your company reduce your Managed IT costs and increase productivity.
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