tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55645030529007858622024-03-23T03:14:08.895-07:00The Problem with Reactive IT Processes CTECH Consulting Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14175942543768779384noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564503052900785862.post-91772776031487372272016-05-02T03:47:00.000-07:002016-05-02T03:47:25.816-07:00The Problem with Reactive IT Processes <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reactive approaches to
data threats neglect the need for active risk management. When companies fail
to plan adequately, issues that should have been avoided will arise later. If
organizations don’t account for core business objectives when designing their
digital strategy, they usually find themselves scrambling to retrofit their
design after implementation.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Align IT with Business <a href="https://www.ctechgroup.ca/">ITSupport Calgary</a> The greatest challenges
that many organizations face in regard to digital strategy are how they should
be aligned with short and long term business goals. IT-intensive organizations
should understand their business objectives if they hope to determine which
tech solutions are appropriate. Short of this, they may end up blindly treating
the symptoms and neglect the cause. Problems will re-emerge, perpetuating a
reactive IT culture rather than a proactive solution.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Companies need to examine
the requirements of their digital strategy and consider the following:</span>
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infrastructure satisfy our strategic vision?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using the right data
classifications will help with information life-cycle management. It will save
data center resources, boost performance, utilization, reduce costs, and
overhead. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3e403e; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Avoiding the Quick Fix Mindset</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It can be frustrating to
get sidetracked from your long-term strategic goals by the need to continuously
patch problems resulting from a reactive IT culture.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Issues that IT deals with
on a constant basis can be alleviated by using a proactive approach.
Anticipating possible problems by creating a tech management strategy will help
reduce the chances of individual problems catching you off guard. At the same
time, your tech management strategy will help establish a proactive process for
dealing with all future issues. The failure to plan will eventually result in
the ongoing unplanned expenditure of time and money just to stave off simple
repetitive problems.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another issue that will
often stem from relying on a reactive approach awaits all ill-prepared IT
departments. It is one that can place an organization in the uncomfortable
position of having to react quickly, allowing technologies that have yet to be
properly tested to go into mainline use.</span>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The risk of applying
cutting edge quick fixes is that they will frequently require training and
practice before your staff becomes competent using them. While new gadgets may
solve your immediate problem, they will also usually introduce a number
unforeseen complications in both the long and short term.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is best to take the
time to fully address the issues before they outgrow your ability to cope with
them. It’s advisable to stop and perform an across-the-board assessment of all
the possible solutions before patching the problem with new and untested
technologies.</span>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3e403e; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Risk Management is Everything</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In times of economic
uncertainty, the importance of managing risk is at its peak. It can be much
more difficult to bounce back from unexpected losses, or a major business
interruption. What's more, the typical price of avoiding threats like these is
significantly less than the cost of recovery.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An essential part of this
kind of planning is in recognizing that your company’s risk-preparedness has to
match up to your projected recovery objectives– otherwise you risk a major gap
in business continuity- which could lead added costs, spent resources and
damage to your reputation.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e403e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.ctechgroup.ca/">IT Consulting Calgary</a> can
help you to create an information security/business continuity and disaster
recovery plan that is geared toward recovery, compliance, and audibility, as
well as partner assurance. We apply strict industry standards and progressive
frameworks that will help to assess how healthy your company’s risk profile is
right now, plot where it needs to progress tomorrow and discover the correct
steps to get there today.</span></div>
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