Every Stringfellow client gets a Technical Advisor that works with your team closely at a high level, but do you know why?
When planning your company’s next growth phase—whether it’s expansion, modernization, increasing productivity, or improving collaboration—technology will be a key factor in its success. Yet too often, IT is treated as an afterthought, leading to missed opportunities, cost overruns, and preventable risks.
That’s why the smartest business leaders pull their Technical Advisor into planning meetings early. Your Technical Advisor isn’t just a tech expert—they bridge the gap between business strategy and technology execution, ensuring your initiatives succeed without IT roadblocks slowing you down.
Here’s how working with your Technical Advisor can help strengthen and solidify your business goals.
1. Growth & Expansion Without IT Bottlenecks
Expanding to a new location? Hiring a remote workforce? Merging with another company? Each of these initiatives has significant IT implications. Your Technical Advisor ensures that the gear, security, and user experience scale smoothly—before you run into problems.
For a case study about a growth company we helped scale out, check out this page.
2. Modernization That’s Aligned With Your Business
Modernization projects—like moving to the cloud, replacing legacy systems, or integrating automation—aren’t about IT for IT’s sake. They’re about business agility, cost control, and efficiency. Your Technical Advisor ensures that modernization efforts serve your business goals, not just IT trends.
This is one of the main areas that your employees will recognize investments. Upgrade projects that are planned keep everyone happy at work and with a good machine, productivity will skyrocket. Slacking on this is not something to ignore. Moreover, scheduling upgrades for systems is something that should come from the top down, not piecemeal from broken systems in time of need.
When you make the decision to keep things up to date, your employees will be able to work faster, from anywhere (if needed), and safely.
3. Productivity & Collaboration That Actually Work
Collaboration tools are only useful if they align with your team’s workflows. A Technical Advisor helps optimize Microsoft 365, Teams, and other tools to ensure they work the way your business does—without creating friction or confusion.
Of course you’ve heard about AI, but this is another area that collaboration may fall under. Your staff might be collaboration with AI now and your company needs to make sure that the company keeps structure and controls in place to stay safe. WIth a little planning on the front end, we can help keep those new collaboration and productivity tools like AI and automation in line with safety and security your company needs.
4. Risk Mitigation Without Overcomplicating Your Business
Every business initiative comes with cybersecurity risks. Your Technical Advisor proactively identifies and reduces risks before they turn into costly problems—whether it’s securing a new office, managing compliance, or ensuring remote work security.
We read a lot of cybersecurity insurance contracts and are a few years ahead in terms of recommendations. Not only can cyber upgrades save you money on your cyber insurance, but they can keep your company’s data safe!
The Best Business Leaders Make IT an Asset, Not a Hurdle
When IT isn’t part of early discussions, it can become a roadblock later. But when business leaders bring their Technical Advisor into planning meetings from the start, IT becomes a business enabler—driving efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring your initiatives actually deliver results.
If you’re planning growth, expansion, modernization, or any major business initiative, let’s make sure IT is working for you—not against you.
