Sometimes there is this sort of strange backlash around the idea of staff augmentation, which can be a real efficiency for business. It comes in the form of people thinking that adding staff this way is going to make their workforce into some kind of polymath horror or cobbled-together nightmare.

While that might be true in some scenarios, and particularly in the old days when business was so hierarchical, staff augmentation really makes abundant sense for a lot of companies today. So it makes sense to talk about that when you’re trying to brainstorm ways to move ahead, not just to maintain a status quo, but to bring your business closer to its “desired state.”

Facing Challenges

When your company faces new challenges, things you never had to worry about before, it’s difficult to ramp up. Most companies don’t have a battery of in-house people with all of those particular skill sets to handle new challenges. They have teams of people that are focused on core operations.

That’s a lot of what’s behind the idea of getting a virtual CISO or an outsourced team to handle cybersecurity or managed services or anything like that.

It’s not capitulation, or surrender. It’s a proactive way to build capability into your business model.

Creating Flexibility

It’s just the nature of the modern business world that you’re going to encounter dynamic resistance.

A lot of that, to be sure, is related to cybersecurity – and with ransomware on the rise along with all sorts of exploits based on loopholes and vulnerabilities in complex software, it’s no wonder that CEOs are often kept up at night.

But other aspects of change are related to the workloads themselves, and how you handle business processes. First, we had the cloud, then we had virtualization and co-location, and now we have artificial intelligence and machine learning built into everything from sales software to fast food restaurants.

In this context, you’re very likely to have a better chance of competing with some outside talent on board to serve in an as needed or supplementary role. You can call it consulting, but sometimes it takes the form of staff augmentation, which can be a little bit more profoundly integrated.

Anyway, that’s a little bit about the realities that a lot of our clients face when they secure help from Craftech for excellent technology management. Review the site for more on what kinds of services we can provide to help you to fine-tune your business architecture.