The top-down business model is no longer appropriate in that it fails to capture the absolutely essential innovation necessary for a company to even exist today. The cost of a new hire and the loss of an old one rarely is calculated in today’s ultra-fast business pace. Words like margin, opportunity cost and across the board cuts are bandied about but rarely used in a forward thinking strategy.

If you have a stifling model, any strategies will do little more than keep it afloat until the next merger, or when it goes out of business. Build it to flip has become the new watchword. The cost to its employees and people with loyalty to the company is priceless.

We think the old fashioned way: with rewarding quality effort and attempting to derive the truth and the brutal reality of all things, then doing everything ethical to see it through. We believe in helping our clients with longevity. Even a small IT request can lead to enlarging a client’s scope of operations.

Crossing boundaries arising from organizational charts, where departments still are fortresses, bent on protecting its own and creating empires within, - defensive measures from combating the bureaucracy inherent in any of these top-down models – is a beginning step for seeing potential impact from IT tools in business.

Often, business sees IT as a means of looking over the shoulder of its workforce. When one is watched and measured on an on-going basis, stress goes up and productivity, ironically, goes down. Our clients become aware of management approaches that can be less complimentary to spearheading innovation. That is the key behind engaging minds and loyalty, whether it be from inside the company or its paying customers.