How to keep your Business Productive when you Move Office
Worried about lost business time when you move office? Check out these practical IT Relocation tips to ensure your business stays productive throughout the office move.
Many office moves get judged on the ability to maintain “business as usual” throughout the relocation process. As far as planning the relocation of your IT equipment and business phones are concerned, due thought and pre-planning needs to be given to ensure that your business stays productive throughout the move.
A well-planned IT relocation involves the careful shutdown of all equipment, that is then packed and transported safely to the new office, set up and tested so that when staff arrive, business can resume quickly back to normal.
Don’t just sit back and hope that everything’s going to run like clockwork, there are lots of preparations you need to do in advance of your office move. Firstly, you’ll need to assess what IT infrastructure you will need in the new office – and establish what, if any, is already set up in the new location. Issues such as network cabling, server room requirements, number and location of phone lines should all be an integral part of your office space and design plans.
Reviewing your IT equipment and business phone systems is also important. This will not only help you to assess your future IT requirements, but will also ensure you are on the best cost / service package that enables your business to operate at its optimum efficiency.
No IT Relocation will be complete without an IT Test Plan. This involves a documented, logical process of how you are going to test all your IT equipment in the new office; the sending / receiving of email, in/outbound phone calls, DDIs, internet speed, network configuration and all corporate software – and all this has to be done before staff arrive.
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