Managing your ICT team and reducing ICT costs

"To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy." Sun Yat-sen

The secret of achieving an affordable and sustainable ICT service within a school is knowledge;

• knowledge of what the various contributing elements of the service cost to maintain, licence and employ;
• knowledge of what they will cost to refresh and when this is likely to need to happen;
• knowledge of newer, cheaper and more effective alternatives.

Once an holistic and forward-looking picture of a school's ICT costs has been reached, making clear informed decisions driven by the need to sustain and improve provision in an era of reduced funding becomes attainable. 

Novatia are experts in exactly this knowledge discovery process, having worked with numerous schools to explore every aspect of their ICT funding and apply logic, market knowledge and experience of running school ICT services to create a fully costed multi-year spending forecast.

Our knowledge of intelligent processes for the management of ICT, emerging technologies and national best practice such as FITS  helps shape schools' future plans and efforts to reduce costs through smarter use of ICT and smarter behaviours from users.

If you think your school would benefit from expert advice on reducing costs and achieving sustainability with ICT please take a look at the Factsheets opposite and contact us to discuss this further.