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QUESTIONS
EVERY IT
LEADER
NEEDS
TO ASK
By Dan Waldinger, Director of Marketing, Solutions
& Services at Brother International Corporation
In the past, IT was often viewed as a cost center. But todays IT professionals
are business-savvy executives responsible for bottom-line results. They are
important members of the corporate management team, tasked with improving
productivity and efficiency. However, many CIOs may be surprised to find a
significant business loss caused by their own departments.
For example, a CIO at a company with 500 employees can potentially recover
more than $100k per year by asking six key questions and making simple
changes that often require zero development costs. Theyre easy fixes that many
IT professionals may be overlooking.
How does your company compare? Run through these questions and find out.
To
optimize
productivity,
maintain
worker-to-device
ratio
of
to chat about personal things, but only 28 percent more likely to chat
about work. In fact, 61 percent of employees have conversations at
the copier/printer versus just 31 percent who have conversations at the
water cooler. This wasted time could be costly to small-to-medium sized
businesses. As the CIO, you can easily mitigate these business losses with
more appropriate device allocation.
GETTING STARTED
Many IT leaders overlook office devices when optimizing for cost and
efficiency. If your company is like most, your printers may be too big, too
far away and too expensive. A balanced deployment strategy the results
in right-sizing your printer fleet can help you save time and money, and
its surprisingly easy. Connect with Brother and let us help you optimize
your work flow.