And if you're a business, between software, hardware, vendors, streaming, publications, and service providers, the list can be pages long... and tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars a month in fees.
Of those, how many are fully utilized?
How many are staff fully trained on?
How many can be consolidated? Renegotiated?
How many can simply be canceled, with little to no real impact?
Now, consider using the same thought process for payroll and staffing - How many employees or teams could use training and attention to be more productive? How many managers could be better guided and held to higher standards of accountability?
This, in a nutshell, is the problem of the Consumption Gap. At Scalable, elimination of our clients' Consumption Gaps is a top priority with vCIOs asking themselves:
How many functions could be automated through the strategic use of technology, allowing those team members to be repositioned to address issues that have been tabled and moved to the backburner?
Our infographic here outlines Scalable's recommended steps to reduce and eliminate the Consumption Gap at your business and the video below provides an eagle's eye view of the role of an effective vCIO.
If you, or anyone you know could use a bit of guidance with the strategic alignment of your business technology, please contact us at any time.
"The only thing that is constant is change."
-- Heraclitus