Where are you now?
What is working, what needs attention and what should be on your radar?
Looking for IT support in Enfield? 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.
Enfield has been making and moving things for a long time.
The Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock became the British Army's principal source of rifles during the 19th century. By 1860, it was producing nearly 1,800 rifles a week, helping establish the Lee Valley as a major industrial area.
That industrial character is still unusually visible today. Brimsdown is London's second-largest industrial estate, home to around 240 businesses and more than 8,000 jobs across manufacturing, logistics and food production. Enfield Council is planning substantial additional industrial space across the borough.
Coca-Cola gives that scale a recognisable name. Its Edmonton factory employs around 280 people across seven production lines and produces about 162 million cases of drinks a year.
The products have changed enormously since rifles were made at Enfield Lock. What survived is Enfield's role as one of London's places for making, storing and distributing physical products - now at the scale of hundreds of businesses and thousands of jobs.
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.