Are you ready for fast growth? If success, a large influx of cash or an acquisition propelled you to the next level, would your IT sustain the load: new employees, new locations, new needs?
Fixing or building up an IT infrastructure for a fast-growing company involves making hundreds of IT and best-practice choices that all must be correct. There is little room for trial and error and no room for software beta testing, even when you rely heavily on the cloud.
You need technology that can scale to hundreds or thousands of users in multiple locations and yet be affordable at the beginning when you have only a few users in one place.
You need a CIO or IT manager who can deploy new systems in days or weeks rather than months, but also one who can bring new life to the hardware and software you already own. Servers, PC's, drives, cabling systems, and software need not be replaced when they can easily be upgraded or put to new use. PC's can be granted years of extended life with Solid State Drives and extra memory. Aging networks can be beefed up by pulling new data cables alongside the old or by upgrading a WiFi infrastructure. The list goes on.
Throwing more money than necessary at an IT problem is more likely to cost time than it is to buy time. Invest wisely.