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Creating your March Madness bracket wisely is key during every college basketball championship season. Likewise, choosing the right IT services provider to partner with is a key decision with major consequences for your organization. Whether you’re filling out your bracket or choosing your IT services partner, you want to pick a winner.

It’s not an understatement to say that the ability to embrace remote work has been critical for any organization’s continued success over the last two years. Making this shift has allowed many organizations to weather changing restrictions while continuing to serve their stakeholders, even when staff are no longer working from the same building.

Expert IT support can be difficult to come by, and it’s more important now than ever. The message at conferences, on the evening news, and in magazines is clear. As a leader, you need to be aware of the risks to your organization and you need to take action to protect your sensitive data from attacks.

Every day you are presented with choices: Soup or salad? Go to the gym or binge watch Netflix? Professional Technology Organization (PTO), IT provider or an internal IT department?

Start the new year strong by partnering with an expert IT support team to help you strategize for what’s ahead. The right technology is critical to business success, so who you choose to be your IT solutions partner is essential. You need a partner that can take the lessons from the past two years and, with an eye on the future, develop a strategy that works best for your organization.

Recently we stepped in to assist a local nonprofit agency with what many would call a “good problem to have.” They were presented with the opportunity to take over another territory which would double their size. At that time, they employed a small internal IT team with some external consultants. The leadership team realized their current approach was not scalable to support the organization as it grew. The decisions they had to make “in the moment” would have a profound impact on the success of the organization for years to come and caused them to need extensive IT help.

You need a security IT consultant you can rely on to keep your systems secure. When the holiday season rolls around, the Elf on the Shelf becomes Santa’s partner to keep an eye on everything. The same concept holds true for your network security.

Online, anyone can pretend to be someone else. Organizations have learned that to protect their network security they need to shift from “Trust that this person is who they say they are, and verify later” to “Verify their identity first, and then trust them.”