{"id":8969,"date":"2022-02-23T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T01:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2022-02-23T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T01:45:51","slug":"who-really-controls-your-organisations-it-systems-and-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=8969","title":{"rendered":"Who really controls your organisation\u2019s IT systems and your data?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you know who owns and leases your operational equipment, or your buildings, plant and other physical facilities..<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Can you say who controls your IT?<\/h2>\n

How flexible is your IT supply chain to meet your not-for-profit’s ongoing needs?<\/p>\n

You exist to serve your community – are the people that work with you on the same journey?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Given how vital IT is to your organisation, you need to be able to react to changing needs<\/strong>.\u00a0 Are you locked in with any IT providers or staff members that you are not happy with or confident in?\u00a0 If you find yourself thinking that the answer is ‘yes’ to this, then that’s a source of stress.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen cases where software licensing and website domain names are registered against the IT provider, not the actual association\/organisation.\u00a0 This gives rise to who really owns these<\/strong>, and who is responsible for them?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We’ve seen bad examples with internal IT staff having no documentation or implementing complex labour intensive solutions that seem to exist to justify their jobs.\u00a0 In reality, its often just that there has been no pressure or support to clean these up.\u00a0 In fact, in many organisations, while there are multiple resources around accounting, support and obviously legal work itself, IT can be a blind spot<\/strong>; often there is just one person with limited oversight and support.<\/p>\n

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When you store your data in the cloud, does it remain ‘your’ data?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At Kinetics, we loathe the idea of term contracts, because we believe the relationship should inform the duration of our partnership rather than a contracted time period.\u00a0 IT is so integral to your organisation, you need an IT business that you can rely on, rather than ones that rely on you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That also means that systems should be documented and processes should be understood.\u00a0 There can be no lock-in to a single person or organisation, just in case the unthinkable happens.\u00a0 You should have control.\u00a0 Do you have documentation telling you, or a new IT partner, how things are set up, why they are set up that way?, key contacts for various services, key password credentials and so forth?\u00a0 We believe this is your information and you should have it available<\/strong>, but all too often we see IT partners withhold it when asked.\u00a0 One common challenge is finding out about subscriptions you would have renewed, if only you had known about them – it\u2019s a disaster to discover them only when things stop working as a result of key contracts expiring.<\/p>\n

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If you aren’t sure who in your organiusatin is best to answer these questions, it is probably time you tried a contract part-time IT Manager, to help you manage ALL your valuable IT.\u00a0 Check out ourstructured, programmatic “IT Manager as a Service” approach to help you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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