Your IT team needs to have quite a few members to it, to make sure you’ve got a proper department with enough manpower and adaptability to keep up with your company as it develops and expands. After all, IT concerns are at the forefront of the modern business world, and most of the time, we wouldn’t be anywhere without a professional on the end of a helpline!

So here’s just a couple of things to take into account when trying to pad out an IT team for your company. Whether they’re in or out of house, you need to know what you’re looking for. 

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You’ll Need to Focus on Development

As a startup, one of the things you need the most from your IT team is a wealth of development skills. These are the people who are going to set up the framework of your business, often from just a simple set of parameters or an aging software that is no longer viable for use, and you’re going to need some experts. 

Experts are the people who will understand your requirements. They’ll be able to look at your to-do list and be able to come up with a couple of potential solutions on the spot. They’ll be able to inform you, without any jargon, on the proceedings of their work, and exactly how it’ll change or improve the way you work. They’ll be able to boost your connectivity, reduce your network latency, file away any background applications that could be slowing the whole system down, and then be able to discover the root causes of any persistent problems you’re experiencing. 

Most of all, an expert developer knows how to input security into your network and servers, and into your website, to make sure hacking and intrusion attempts are kept to a minimum. They’ll be able to show you how to keep your company and customer data safe, and inform you on the pros and cons of different storage methods. 

You’ll Need to Focus on Support

Secondly, a good IT team is one that can support you, whenever your business is open and needs a helping hand. If the website goes down, they can be reached without problem. If your network servers reach max capacity, they won’t take too long to install upgrades to the capacity. You don’t want to be dealing with issues like these on your own, remember that. 

IT support networks can most often be outsourced, as a lot of companies have their own offices and company structures, and simply need a phone line to get in contact with you. And in house and outsourced IT departments aren’t mutually exclusive – just look at a company like NetWize as an example. If your own team needs to share the workload, seeing as they take on the bulk of your company issues already, it won’t be hard to integrate both teams together. 

IT teams need to have many strengths, but at the least, the two above count the most.