The Cost of Survival Mode

The day-to-day strain on resources in IT can cause teams to miss out on key opportunities due to the need to keep putting out fires instead of strategically planning for the future. And when you finally get the chance to hire new people, there’s no bandwidth to properly train them, which means that the ticket backlogs never shrink and senior staff is constantly being pulled into basic tasks that are beneath their skill level.

And that’s not to say that these senior folks don’t want to mentor the younger generation, there’s just no time.

Then, as an IT leader, you’re responsible for roadmap items that keep getting pushed back, good talent getting burnt out and leaving, and no time to dedicate to evaluating new technologies or approaches that would make the organization flow better.

In this stream, we talk about how survival mode is not enough in IT, and how you take those next steps you haven’t yet had the bandwidth for.

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