Why bother!
Following on from Nathan’s last post, the question that springs to mind is Why Bother! The reason, in a single word is ‘Confidence’, if you lose the clients confidence you have lost the war. Regardless of the label you assign a business like ours, we develop software. Business software, productivity software, CRM software, the label is secondary to the fact we build software solutions, and part of the solution is a product that works. If a product is slow and laboured, it may be the most functional, secure, useable product on the market, however, all you will hear from users is ‘it’s slow’. And they would be right! Clients need to be confident that the investment they have made actually improves productivity and slow systems don’t tend to inspire that confidence.
The largest cost to most businesses today is labour and a slow network, PC, or software application is costing you money, every single hour of each and every day it is in use.
If a computer operator regularly waits for their PC to process instructions, you could easily be losing 20 - 50% (or more) productivity per staff member. This means that in order to support a 50% growth in business you will need to either increase staff by 50% or increase productivity by 50%, and one of the simplest ways of improving productivity is to use the correct tools for the job.
When it comes to Business productivity - faster is usually better!
