Having contingency plans and redundancy in business is key to ensuring you have the inputs, production, and delivery mechanisms necessary to satify customer product or service demands. This holds true for businesses of all sizes and reach, local or global. The bigger the reach, or more complex the business, the more critical having these plans become.
This also holds true for the business, data, and EDI integration responsibilities we have to our organizations.
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In a recent article that has been circulating from Forbes.com, How Far $100 Goes In Each State And Major Metropolitan Area, I was surprised to see the differences in the value of our “buck” state to state. Of course some things are more expensive in some areas, like Hawaii where everything has to be shipped in by boat, but what makes the value of your buck worth so much more in Ohio vs Pennsylvania when they are neighboring states?
After reading this article, it occurred to me that this same thing happens in the B2B Integration/EDI Consulting world. When you are faced with staffing issues or project work that needs done, are you getting the most bang for your buck?
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The weather looks great for this weekend, so my wife Amy and I will ‘slip the surly bonds of earth’ in a small private airplane for a summer holiday visit with family a few hundred miles to our south. And though we will arrive at the same destination, at the same time, in the same aircraft, if you ask each of us about our trip you will find we’ve taken two very different journeys to get there.
Our blog themes of late have been loosely connected...Shopping for Integration Software, Maximizing Your Investment in Integration Software, and Non-traditional Integration Suite Use Cases...to name a few. Within each of these blogs, and in your everyday business/personal life, you are confronted with decisions. There are many decision models to utilize when you are presented with life's forks in the road. Here is one often utilized by Remedi and it's clients.
Regardless of your role in an IT organization (we presume it has something to do with data integration, EDI, B2B integration, MFT, file/data exchange, etc.), it is important to have a plan for supporting growth and innovation for your firm. As the adage goes, you can have a plan or be part of someone else's. Being proactive in terms of your plans and desires for your integration group means different things depending your firm's perspective of Information Technology.
