The rise of technology in recent years has resulted in your IT department becoming one of your business’s most important teams and assets. To ensure that you are getting the absolute most out of these essential professionals, you should seek to optimize their workflow and enhance their efficiency. By investing time and effort into this challenge, you will stand to reap a host of benefits that are felt across the length and breadth of your company.
To find two ways you can improve your IT department, be sure to read on.
Ensure that they keep their finger on the pulse
Technology is an ever-changing field. What is new, exciting, and groundbreaking today will be old news by this time tomorrow. If you want to ensure that your business is able to remain abreast of all the latest changes in the tech industry, your IT professionals must constantly have their fingers placed firmly on the pulse of the latest developments and updates.
If your IT department isn’t always quick to embrace the very latest technological advances, then you need to do something about it. You must find a way to make sure that they are always open to the idea of working with new forms of technology. Something that you can do in this instance is embracing Inpulse change management surveys. By taking this approach to employee transformation, you will be sure to accelerate the change that you wish to make and subsequently maximize its intended impact.
In order to track the changes that you seek to implement in this instance, you must regularly ask your IT professionals the following questions:
- What do you think about the change?
- Are you aware of new opportunities brought about by the change?
- How helpful is this change to your workflow?
- Have you been energized by this change?
- Do you understand the importance of the change?
- How do you think the change will benefit your department and the rest of the business?
- Is this change the right one to implement?
Make sure that they remain in contact with other departments
The work that your IT department performs on a daily basis directly affects the rest of your business. If they fail to, say, keep your computer devices active at all times, your other departments aren’t going to be able to get on with their daily tasks. For this reason, it is absolutely essential that you make sure that your inter-departmental communication is as clear and coherent as it can be. If it isn’t, your IT department won’t be able to remain in constant contact with your other teams and, thus, they won’t be aware of the specific challenges that they face on an hourly basis.
To improve interdepartmental communication, you must:
- Host leadership meetings on a weekly basis
- Make sure each of your departments are provided with context whenever they are given tasks
- Set company-wide goals that impact everybody in the long run
- Form teams comprised of employees from various different departments
- Hire someone to act as a go-between between your departments
- Use communication channels that everybody can use and access
