5 Signs Your Technology Is Holding Your Business Back

Every growing business hits a point where its systems stop keeping up.   Unfortunately, there isn’t an alarm your systems give you that says, “We can’t keep up with your goals”.  Instead, companies experience slow degradation, frustration amongst employees, and chaos managing basic workflow and reporting tasks. 

This post includes how to spot some common warning signs such as: Unreliable reporting, disconnected systems, rising IT costs, overwhelmed teams, and redundancy.   

The typical short-term solutions include:  

• Additional headcount or overtime at a cost to the company

• Salaried employees working long hours at a cost to morale

• Workarounds that become part of the long-term process

• Missed deadlines, inaccurate reporting, ‘guesstimates’, and ‘feel’ base decision making

When you rinse and repeat this pattern, systems quickly turn into a place where data is simply recorded (usually after it is needed by others) and not a place where data drives the next steps in the process or key decisions. Typically, this technical debt accumulates. And then it comes due at the worst possible times for the business. 

If any of the signals below are visible at your business, it is time for an assessment.  That assessment starts by contacting Trusted Path Solutions for a free consultation.  Let’s talk about your goals and the path that will lead your business wherever you choose to take it!  Trusted Path Solutions understands the unique challenges SMB manufacturers and distributors face.  We will guide your journey with clarity, confidence and trust.

Signal	Identification
Unreliable Reporting	You lack real time insights into key metrics about your company You get different answers to the same question with different data Metrics take more than a few hours to generate Employees ask "Where did you pull your numbers from?"
Disconnected Systems	Employees don't know where data is; in a spreadsheet, an email, or the ERP Data is in a spreadsheet, an email, and the ERP Systems and they don't match
Rising IT costs	Improvements can't get done because IT is always 'Fixing' issues IT is drowning in License management Application Proliferation
Overwhelmed Teams	Job Descriptions focus on the software more than employees' skills "Is <SystemName> down again?" is heard in your hallways/breakroom
Redundancy	Employees are asking "Will AI Fix this?"? You are Googling "Software to track….." You keep searching for the magic bullet fix

If your operations feel slower than your goals, the path forward begins with clarity, not complexity.

Schedule a no obligation free consultation to find your clarity. Let me be your guide and get you back on the Trail!