Twelve Things IT Managers Should Resolve to Do in 2008

We don't come up with recommendations on our own all the time! Below is a single slide from an eWeek article called: Twelve Things IT Managers Should Resolve to Do

And of course, we agree with most of the article - but one thing that really hits home with some of our larger clients who have internal IT resources already:

Just because you have internal IT resources, does not mean their best time spent is on the remedial tasks of basic preventative maintenance, backup management, patching, etc... - that should be left to specialists who can do it cheaper and more efficiently!

Instead, internal IT resources should be spent on activities which add actual business value, and are very specific to your operation.