One of the larger challenges that is faced by people that managing the IT responsibility for their company is finding good partners that they can work with. Believe it or not, it wasn’t until last decade that most companies finally felt that hiring systems had become solid enough that they could rely upon a candidates technical skill set being as advertised when they hired them.

The hiring battle then shifted to whether or not candidates would be able to handle information ethics standards. Most companies are very sensitive about allowing their information to be handled by vendors that employ people that leak information about them that is copyright or not to be talked about.

Today, with an uptick in technology development, some of the smarter firms have started looking at ways to avoid a return to worrying about a candidate’s technical skill set.

Here are some ways that hiring firms are optimizing their return on their IT dollar:

Using managed services:

Managed services is one of the more popular way to take your IT work and move it offsite. You can also have people come onsite from an outside vendor and take over the day-to-day operations of a specific part of your IT department onsite. The primary benefit of using a managed IT services is that you can expect to save money while getting the same level of service as you are used to. You can also cover new technologies more easily because your vendor will be responsible for seamlessly … READ MORE ...