Innovative IT Support is crucial for your business

Everyone depends on IT for day to day personal and business needs. IT is as essential as power and heating � without it, our daily business becomes more difficult and time consuming.

Like electricity, IT is expected just to work. When it stops working, all IT problems should be fixed immediately and at minimal cost. Additionally, it is the IT persons fault for the problem in the first place and anyone who cannot fix the problem is incompetent!

In short, it's a tough job to be an IT support person. They only get called when there is a problem and the people calling usually expect the IT person to instantly understand their problem with minimal detail.

One of the biggest challenges when looking for IT support for your home or business is who to pick? There are hundreds of IT companies out there � they all seem to be brilliant at everything and the websites all look fantastic.

Below are some of the questions you may want to ask as you evaluate which IT support company to use:

• Location � are they close to your offices and able to attend to issues promptly?
• Years in business � have they been around for a while?
• Skills needed � can they support you now and in the future?

One big factor that should be considered is that the support company will speak with you to really understand what your business is about and what you plan to do in the next few months and longer term. They should also want to understand what your current challenges are and suggest ways of overcoming them.

Ideally the IT support company should be able to offer alternatives and solutions in a way that makes sense to you and is not full of technical jargon.

Once the IT company understands your business and what you are trying to achieve, they will partner with you to find solutions not only to your day to day problems, they will be able to suggest ways of helping your business grow through smarter working practices that help you work when you are out of the office or looking to expand.

Quite often people think that they can do their own IT support. This often works initially, however generally people run in to problems when their day job gets in the way - they are not employed to do IT support and quite often don't have the necessary expertise which causes problems down the line and makes it even more frustrating for other employees in the business.