Where are you now?
What is working, what needs attention and what should be on your radar?
Looking for IT support in Amersham? Before we tell you about us, let us tell you something about the community. Because we believe understanding the places in which our clients work helps us understand their businesses a little better.
To understand one distinctive part of Amersham's business community today, it helps to go back a few decades.
The Radiochemical Centre grew here from a small wartime operation into an international life-sciences company employing around 2,000 people by the early 1980s. In 1982, the newly renamed Amersham International became the first company privatised by Margaret Thatcher's government. GE eventually acquired it for £5.7 billion in 2004.
That scientific legacy hasn't disappeared. GE HealthCare still has pharmaceutical diagnostics operations in Amersham, which remains one of its global R&D hubs for pharmaceutical diagnostics.
But today that sits within a much more diverse local economy spanning professional services, healthcare, technology, finance, retail, hospitality and manufacturing. The diversity is visible in Amersham's two commercial centres: specialist shops, restaurants and hospitality in Old Amersham, and a larger mix of shops, services and offices around the station in Amersham-on-the-Hill.
So today's Amersham is no longer defined by one enormous scientific employer. The specialist life-sciences activity remains, but it now sits within a much broader economy of smaller businesses.
Over the past decade, our lives have moved online, with COVID accelerating that shift. Today, almost everything can be done online.
At the same time, we're seeing another trend. More and more people recognise the benefits of having partners they can meet in person. Some things are simply easier to understand when you're in the same room. The reaction to a comment, a hesitation, a telling look between team members - these are much harder to pick up on a video call.
And for IT, that matters when you want more than support tickets to be resolved. If you want a partner who understands the business and the people who make it work, being able to meet in person makes a real difference.
Being local only matters if you make use of it.
Beyond day-to-day support, we regularly sit down with clients face-to-face. That means support isn't limited to whatever happens to be in the support queue. Together, we step back and look at three things:
What is working, what needs attention and what should be on your radar?
How is the business changing, and what will that mean for your technology?
What needs to happen now, what can wait and what should you be planning for?
We call these Partnership Reviews. It's a more structured kind of relationship than simply being available for a coffee, and it's why some of our clients describe the value we provide as having a fractional CTO.
On your free 20–30 minute video call, we will discuss where technology slows your team down, how responsibility is shared and what one accountable partner could change. There is no commitment or obligation to use our services.