Where are you now?
What is working, what needs attention and what should be on your radar?
Looking for IT support in Hatfield? 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.
Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, has a stronger claim to aviation history than its present-day appearance might suggest.
De Havilland moved aircraft production to Hatfield in the 1930s. The Mosquito was built here during the Second World War, and in 1949 the de Havilland Comet, the world's first jet-powered passenger airliner, made its first flight from Hatfield. Aircraft design and production continued on the site until 1993.
What happened next makes the story more interesting. Part of the former aerodrome became the University of Hertfordshire's de Havilland Campus. The university is now Hatfield's largest employer, and the same site that once developed aircraft is again being used to connect engineering, technology and business. Its Enterprise Hub gives companies access to incubation, research expertise, specialist facilities and talent.
Hatfield's economic anchor has therefore changed, but there is an unusual continuity. A place once built around developing new aircraft is still strongly associated with engineering, applied research and turning ideas into 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.