Hiring The IT Guy First

The article below is an interesting one I came across today. It got me thinking in a direction I have never done before.

Sure, ever since I read Bill Gate’s Business@ the Speed of Thought, I have been made aware of how profoundly IT impacts the way business is done. Personally I have been a pretty good assimilator of IT. I’m never in the first wave of IT adopters but I’ve certainly jumped in by the time the second wave has gathered momentum.

However, so far in each of my businesses, I have tried to depend on my own IT skills and call in the experts only when something remained beyond my abilities. In the process I have poured over on-line tutorials and become something of a jack of all trades whether it has to do with hardware, networking, software, purchasing, repairing, social media etc, etc. I have hired lawyers, accountants. sales people etc. first but never an IT guy, But after reading the article, it struck me that I could have done things differently. Read more of this post