Sometimes, the idea of staff augmentation (outsourcing) gets a lot of backlash. This backlash comes from executives, thinking that adding staff this way is going to make their workforce into some kind of unmanageable nightmare. On the contrary, it’s the best way to improve businesses efficiency as fast as possible.

While staff augmentation may not be right for every scenario, it makes the most sense for small businesses in 2022. It’s unrealistic for a small business to have a proper IT team, and if they hire just one IT person, that person can’t be expected to know every single thing about IT. So when a business is growing and its technology needs to get to the next level, it’s time to talk about staff augmentation. Not just to improve the business technology, but to ensure that operations run smoothly as the business grows. Fast-growth small businesses are hiring and firing quickly, and this requires a lot of work – like computer, phone, and software set up each and every time.

Facing Challenges

When a company faces new challenges with its technology, it’s difficult to hire the right people to manage it. Most companies don’t have a line-up of in-house people with the particular skill sets needed to handle new technical challenges. They might have one tech-savvy person, but usually the main focus is hiring talent to manage the business’s core operations.

This is why businesses are finally getting behind the idea of getting an outsourced CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) along with an outsourced team to handle their IT needs. CEOs are busy and don’t have the time to manage their employees’ technical issues on top of all their other day-to-day tasks.

IT staff augmentation is not surrendering the business to an outside source; it’s a proactive way to build capability into the business model.

Creating Flexibility

In the modern business world, it’s human nature to encounter resistance to new concepts, and skepticality about cybersecurity dangers.

A lot of that is related to cybersecurity – and with ransomware on the rise along with all sorts of exploits based on loopholes and vulnerabilities in complex software, it’s no wonder that CEOs are often kept up at night.

But other aspects of change are related to the workloads themselves, and how you handle business processes. First, we had the cloud, then we had virtualization and co-location, and now we have artificial intelligence and machine learning built into everything from sales software to fast food restaurants.

In this context, you’re likely to have a better chance of competing with some outside talent on board to serve in an as-needed or supplementary role. You can call it consulting, but sometimes it takes the form of staff augmentation, which can be a bit more profoundly integrated.

Overall, this is just a brief overview of the realities that a lot of our clients face when they secure help from CrafTech for technology management. Visit our website’s contact page for more details on what kinds of services we can provide to help you to fine-tune your business operations.