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Reimaging your talent roadmap

2020 will go down in history as the year in which the state of work was turned on its head around the globe. Most organisations’ well-planned talent roadmap was most likely thrown out the window for this year due to the ‘Work From Home’ set-up, which many organisations were not prepared for. The focus was rather shifted to managing the COVID-19 situation- ‘Tackling’, ‘Strategising’ and ‘Mitigating’ the adversity of the virus impact leaving the planning for growth aside. 

Having the right people to do the right things, at the right time, has never been more important or if I may say more challenging. Even under normal circumstances finding the right balance requires careful planning and execution, but what happens when the future is so uncertain that by the time you put one set of changes in place, you need to change things again? The speed and agility with which your business navigates any organisational restructure now, will have a direct impact on your ability to survive and thrive going forward. 

This brings us down to a very important business consideration which most of us would not have thought through until now…”Remote Administration”. 

Why hire an external resource?

  • Cost advantages- explore the difference in wages between countries & get the same work done at a fraction of the cost.
  • Increased efficiency- attain the years of experience in business practices & expertise in delivering complex projects through your outsourcing partner.
  • Focus on core areas- free your energies and focus on building your brand, invest in research & development and move on to providing higher value added services.
  • Save on infrastructure and technology- eliminate the need for investment in infrastructure as the outsourcing partner takes the responsibility of the business processes and hence develops infrastructure for the same.
  • Access to skilled resources- fulfill your resourcing needs with a pool of highly skilled resources. The resources employed by @CloudPloys are well educated in the respective business areas and are experienced in handling unique business needs.
  • Unshaken business operations- shield your business operations against the uncertainties faced during the pandemic and other such unforeseen scenarios by building greater operative resilience, achieved through seeking the external aids. 

@CloudPloys offers Remote Admin Assistance that provides a variety of supportive services to benefit a range of administrative needs at flexible, cost effective and convenient ways to suit your needs.

Remote Admin Assistance can support you with all your typing, word processing and data entry requirements. Businesses receive ongoing direct focussed attention & help with company record keeping, amongst building sustainable internal data management processes. 

If you want to protect your business against such adversities then you should definitely consider ‘Reminaging your talent roadmap’ from traditional (internal workforce) to conventional (internal+external workforce)

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Building technology for success in the digital era

Even before COVID-19, many organizations faced considerable IT challenges and some were even reluctant to adapt and preferred to stay intact with their conservative methods. Now, COVID-19 is pushing companies to rapidly operate in new ways and IT solutions have become the utter need of the hour. Businesses are facing a crucial dilemma as they must act quickly to address an unforeseen functioning change and lay a foundation for a smoother tomorrow which is more robust & resilient― business running risks, operational changes, fast decision-making, workforce output, security challenges.  As we reach the other side of this pandemic, it will be essential to establish long-term strategies and be ever ready to be able to absorb any future disruptions with greater resilience. Every business needs to apply lessons learned from this experience and build a flexible operational infrastructure and a dynamic talent roadmap involving a balanced mix of “remote employee” & “traditional employee”.
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How to build a resilient business foundation?

How to build a resilient business foundation?  In our previous article about “Building technology for success in the digital era” we talked about “Resilient business foundation”, but how can you develop that for your business? Here we have six building blocks that you need to work on to achieve concrete resilience for your business in the digital era. ‘Concrete resilience = Healthy business foundation’.
  1. Dynamic Digital Workplace
Enable remote work with a focus on technologies, communications and policies—at extraordinary speed and scale.
  • Help employees get comfortable with remote working (e.g. effectively run virtual meetings).
  • Develop & upgrade collaboration systems and provide guidance for operating in a remote workplace.
  • Build a dynamic digital workplace task force including business, HR, IT and security leaders.
  • Create a mix of traditional desktop workers with internal as well as external mix of employees and implement virtual desktop solutions.
  • Source cost efficient solutions by developing ties with external companies to avoid solely relying on your employees.
  1. Invest in Automation
Increase automation investments to mitigate the impact of systems disruption, optimise human resource capacity and streamline IT workforce management.
  • Identify and fathom bottleneck areas.
  • Implement automation to immediately resolve high-volume tasks by leveraging technology.
  • Augment that which cannot be completely automated with digital co-workers by striking a balanced mix of in-house and out-house staff for greater flexibility.
  • Optimise the arrangement of human resources to focus on core activities.
  1. Business Infrastructure & Performance Engineering
Identify & address critical systems needs and performance constraints and direct efforts to meet business demand.
  • Set up a high to low priority flow chart to address crucial needs and barriers.
  • Identify and implement performance engineering solutions such as optimising data-indexing, application memory, architecture-caching and more.
  • Scale application capabilities through configuration or commercial changes.
  • Apply dynamic architecture remediation techniques, such as streaming data, to offload demand on critical systems.
  1. Accelerate Cloud Transition & Optimisation
Manage demand fluctuations, risk, action instant innovation and optimise cloud costs.
  • Analyse digital activities to maximise capacity for critical applications and tech infrastructure.
  • Leverage the power of cloud to deploy instant innovation through new cloud-native solutions.
  • Implement cloud’s pay-by-the-drink model to align technology costs to drops in demand. This model is a pay-as-you-go, variable cost model with no up-front fees that scales along with demand, an approach that works well for a wide range of scenarios and companies.
  1. Business Operation Continuity
Source and onboard skilled resources to support critical services and deliver new IT projects.
  • Ascertain right skilled resources and initiate knowledge transition.
  • Accelerate service readiness.
  • Sustain service continuity through suitable modern engineering practices and lean IT governance.
  1. Cybersecurity
Protect your Intellectual property, clients and databases wherever they might from unwanted attacks and times of crisis.
  • Implement a Zero Trust model for multi-cloud solutions, individually-owned devices (BYOD) and third-party technologies.
  • Identify security abnormalities and events.
  • Institute daily virtual situational threat intelligence briefings.
  • Train employees and stakeholders to be vigilant about cyber threat tactics.
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