Staff Productivity

The Overlooked Potential of Technology 

One of the biggest levers you can pull as a business owner is improving your staff productivity.  This comes in a number of formats, with AI being on the forefront.  We think that there is a lot left on the table so to speak when it comes to the service IT companies provide and how that is perceived in the business.

Staff Productivity

Harness Your Biggest Asset

In the modern IT world, services are becoming more reliable, solutions are either completely cloud native or going to be soon.  The job of your IT provider isn’t to wait for things to go wrong and run around firefighting anymore – or it shouldn’t be.

Being proactive is the bit of IT services that is so often talked about, but so rarely delivered.  That’s mostly because IT people are generally conditioned to fight fires – after all we generally get called when things go wrong.

It takes a significant shift in an IT company to make Proactive IT a deliverable service, this is not just about spotting errors when they happen, it’s about avoiding the errors in the first place.

To demonstrate these potential savings, we’ve built a widget which you can play with and choose what’s important to you.  

Proactive IT — productivity assessment
Step 1 — how big is your team?
We'll use this to calculate the real cost of the issues you select.
Team size
25staff
Step 2 — which of these do you recognise?
Select everything that sounds familiar. There are no wrong answers.

Select one or more issues above to see what they're costing your business — and how we address each one.

Staff Productivity

How This Helps Your Business

Having a clear understand of where your IT currently is, the decisions you need to make to improve it, when tasks and projects need to be completed and then planning this all out over 3 years is the core of our Proactive Service.

We achieve this with a lot of testing and measuring against real benchmarks which we know contribute to increasing reliability, reducing your costs and ultimately making your business more profitable. 

Proactive – or Truly Proactive?

Staff Productivity

There’s a difference between saying you are proactive and really being proactive. 

True proactivity isn’t a piece of software, it’s not a quarterly meeting to look at tickets, it’s not a retrospective report on how we did last month. 

True proactivity is looking to the future, planning and anticipating.

We Love Happy Customers

What our customers say

“Alex was very quick on the task and also followed-up afterwards.”

Ineza
The Gilbert & George Centre

“Alex was very quick on the task and also followed-up afterwards.”

Ineza The Gilbert & George Centre
Ineza
The Gilbert & George Centre

It was all about getting the right systems in place for now, and I didn’t feel I was being upsold or pushed into anything. That really worked for me.

Jo
Hello Dorking

It was all about getting the right systems in place for now, and I didn’t feel I was being upsold or pushed into anything. That really worked for me.

Jo Hello Dorking
Jo
Hello Dorking

“The relationship isn’t transactional —it’s a partnership. We trust them, and they’ve earned that through consistency, communication, and real expertise.”

Alpesh
Apotec

“The relationship isn’t transactional—it’s a partnership. We trust them, and they’ve earned that through consistency, communication, and real expertise.”

Alpesh, Apotec
Alpesh
Apotec

“As always, Jonathan redenered exceptional to our requirement. Very fast and reliable.”

Rheng
Monaco Engineering Solutions

“As always, Jonathan redenered exceptional to our requirement. Very fast and reliable.”

Rheng Monaco Engineering Solutions
Rheng
Monaco Engineering Solutions

“Ben was Super Excellent. He fixed my computer issue with swift and detailed expertise. He went above and beyond and fixed issues that were on my PC prior to my calling. I am so overjoyed I no longer have computer issues.”

Alan
James Associates

“Ben was Super Excellent. He fixed my computer issue with swift and detailed expertise. He went above and beyond and fixed issues that were on my PC prior to my calling. I am so overjoyed I no longer have computer issues.”

Alan
Alan
James Associates

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