Your Entrepreneurial Mindset Might Be a Hindrance to IT Success

Starting a business requires a certain mindset, one that demands a certain disdain for failure. This entrepreneurial mindset might actually hold you back from seeing success with your business’ technology, however. This month, we want to explore how the same mindset that has allowed you to build your business to where it is today is actually getting in the way of effective technology implementation, as well as what you can do about it.

The Entrepreneurial Mindset

Let’s start with the basics: what it takes to start and grow a business.

At the start of your entrepreneurial journey, you didn’t have all the answers. You had a certain drive, a desire to take action and learn as much as possible along the way. You iterated on what worked and discarded what didn’t; that’s what it means to be successful in the business world.

However, being a founder and business owner requires a lot of bootstrapping, which gets into dangerous territory when it comes to IT.

How Thinking Like an Entrepreneur is Counterproductive to IT

The absolute last thing you want for your IT infrastructure is to have someone with little-to-no experience managing IT to, well, manage your IT.

You might be used to figuring things out on your own through trial and error, but technology issues and implementation can be costly to approach in this way. On the surface, it might seem like a good idea to have current staff manage your technology for you, but the fact remains that IT is a high-skill facet of running a business. Furthermore, and more importantly, you just don’t have the time to do it all yourself, even if you’d like to, for whatever reason.

So what’s a business owner to do in these types of situations? It’s simple, really.

The Solution: Managed IT Services

Honestly, you don’t want to be the one in charge of your IT anyway, and we’ll tell you why.

Managing IT can be incredibly time-consuming and stressful for business owners, and it can pull you away from other critical tasks related to running your business. Wouldn’t you rather focus on what made you a successful business owner in the first place? Wouldn’t it be easier and more efficient to have a dedicated IT resource for your staff rather than a hodgepodge of pseudoexpertise?

That’s where a managed IT service provider like White Mountain IT Services comes in.

With a managed IT provider on your side, you can know with certainty that your organization has the technological expertise to handle just about anything, from technology implementation to scaling for growth.

Are you ready to make the smart choice and rely on the expertise of technology professionals like those at White Mountain IT Services? Get started today by calling us at (603) 889-0800.

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