Why “Break-Fix” Works Entirely In The
Consultant’s Favor, Not Yours
Bumper to Bumper
Parts Warehouse Inc. (PWI), a member of the Bumper to Bumper Alliance, struggled with maintaining consistent and dependable phone service across its 200 retail stores, many of which are in rural areas, until TeleComp and Mitel came to the rescue.
Flower Mound Texas
Gary Bertagnolli, Flower Mound’s director of IT, was responsible for the selection and purchase of the municipality’s new voice and data system. His goal was to replace an aging Nortel Meridian PBX and reduce overall telecom expenses.
Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative
When AVECC needed a reliable replacement phone system that was easily deployed and easy to manage and maintain moving forward. Finding a new solution fell to AVECC’s Technology Coordinator, Brian Orrick, who turned immediately to long-time communications partner TeleComp.
PAM Transport
Maintaining reliable communications with its fleet across the country and customers in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as Mexico, is essential to PAM’s continued success, which is why PAM turned to TeleComp to provide national quality service with a local presence.
GenWealth
When GenWealth Financial Advisors began looking at outsourcing IT resources to optimize their IT budget and further protect their network infrastructure, the financial planning company knew it needed to partner with an IT expert, and contacted TeleComp.
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Vaughn Construction
Working on large projects that can take anywhere from six months to six years, having a consistent, reliable communications partner has enabled the company to maximize its communications budget while keeping up with the latest technology, which is why Vaughn Construction selected Mitel and TeleComp to deliver reliable communications from their headquarter location to all job sites.
Westwood Golf Club
During a recent renovation, Westwood Golf made the decision to replace their AVAYA hosted phone system that was on a “forever lease” to reduce monthly and annual telecom costs and partnered with TeleComp for local service and support.
(January 15, 2022) Two schools of thought for managed IT – which are you?
A question I often get is “Why do I need to be on a managed IT plan? Can’t I just pay you to come out and fix things when they’re broken?” While that’s a legitimate question if we were talking about your washing machine or car, that’s definitely not the right approach to a critical and dynamic IT system that your company depends on; you definitely don’t want to wait until something “breaks” before you try and fix a problem. One virus or hacker attack or one slip-up can cause permanent data loss, extended downtime, a violation of data-breach laws, bad PR, loss of customers and sales, and a host of other expensive problems.
Additionally, under a “break-fix” model, there is a fundamental conflict of interests between you and your IT firm. The IT services company has no incentive to stabilize your computer network or to resolve problems quickly because they are getting paid by the hour; therefore the risk of unforeseen circumstances, scope creep, learning-curve inefficiencies, and outright incompetence are all shifted to you, the customer. Essentially, the more problems you have, the more they profit, which is precisely what you don’t want.
Under this model, the IT consultant can take the liberty of assigning a junior (lower-paid), technician, to work on your problem who may take two to three times longer to resolve an issue than a more senior (and more expensive) technician may have taken to resolve it. There is no incentive to properly manage the time of that technician or their efficiency, and there is every reason for them to prolong the project and to find more problems than solutions. Of course, if they’re ethical and want to keep you as a client, they should be doing everything possible to resolve your problems quickly and efficiently; however, that’s akin to putting a German shepherd in charge of watching over the plate of BBQ. Not a good idea.
Second, it creates a management problem for you, the customer, who now has to keep track of the hours they’ve worked to make sure you aren’t getting overbilled; and since you often have no way of really knowing if they’ve worked the hours they say they have, it creates a situation where you really, truly need to be able to trust they are being 100% ethical and honest and tracking their hours properly (not all do). And finally, it makes budgeting for IT projects and expenses a nightmare since your IT bill may be zero one month and thousands the next.
Plus, IT systems need regular monitoring and maintenance to protect against the 80,000+ brand-new malware attacks that are released every day, not to mention accidental hiccups in data backup, employee error, hardware failure, sabotage from disgruntled employees, etc. The list is long. So, if keeping your IT systems up and running is important to you – as is keeping your network secure from data loss and cybercriminals – then the only option you should choose is a “managed services” plan from a competent, trustworthy, and reliable IT services firm.
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