The Angolan reality is still crucial when it comes to technology, which is to say when you are hired as an IT Technician from a company where the boss (Manager) is technologically unfit, ie he does not understand anything about technology, what he wants is that you put everything to work without investing much or better, invest almost nothing.
In this situation it is important that the technician has domain or superficial knowledge of the Company's business, because if it is not able to show the reasons for the boss to buy new computers certainly he will understand that his goal in the company is to bring costs and not solutions and this can compromise his career in the company, so do the following considerations:
Inventory equipment
1 º Make an inventory of all existing IT equipment in the company, note their characteristics such as disk capacity, memory, processor speed if possible contact the Finance Department to provide you with a copy of the invoices of these equipment to get an idea of the price that this cost in the past and compare with the current price.
Estimate overtime costs
2 º Make a map in Excel with statistics of overtime that employees do for the time spent because of computers slowness by calculating these hours for each employee's salary / hour to help show what the company could stop spending if it invested in new equipment .
Understand the need for Applications in use
3 º Now with the time map spent on overtime by the employees, study the applications that the company uses and search the hardware requirements that these applications need to work properly and avoid buying super fast computers without need, this will costs.
Have quotations from multiple vendors
4 º Ask for quotations from various suppliers of our market like NCR, Sistec, Infornet, Meditech among other IT equipment suppliers and see which one offers a reasonable price with the characteristics of the equipment you want to buy always avoid excessive amounts and be rational do not need a processor i7 for a user who just needs Excel.
With all this information in hand make a single map where it will include:
- The current equipment and its operating state
- Overtime spent due to poor computer status
- The characteristics of the current computers and the requirement of the Softwares that the company uses
- The characteristics of the new equipment you intend to buy and how it will improve the business
- The acquisition value of the new equipment (always have the quotation of more than one supplier).
Request a meeting with the Manager and show him all this information plus he will find you as a competent technician will understand that you care about the growth of the company, if he still understand that the value is high, use your power of convince you to buy the equipment per stage.
It is a difficult step but it is possible to get around it is the right time to explore the talent that lives in itself.
