{"id":3215,"date":"2012-01-30T07:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T13:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:24:51","slug":"is-your-it-department-slow-and-unresponsive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/is-your-it-department-slow-and-unresponsive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your IT department slow and unresponsive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-731\" title=\"Productivity\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Productivity-e1291070228913.jpg\" alt=\"Productivity\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/>Perhaps a better question is this: Do your end users or company executives see your IT department as slow and unresponsive? Do users complain that it takes forever to get new applications from IT? Do new development projects take months to complete?<\/p>\n<p>Now, I do realize that most IT departments are swamped with work. There aren\u2019t enough hours in the day to handle the daily duties and develop new applications in a timely manner. So, what\u2019s the answer?<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can you turn your time-strapped IT department into the most responsive department in the company?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rather than tell you, here\u2019s a great story of a developer who did just that. In fact, he started completing projects so quickly, one executive in his company claimed that he was \u201cdeveloping solutions waiting for problems.\u201d To find out how he did it, you can <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/Click\/BIL120131_IsYourITDeptSlowUnresponsive');\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/customers\/emhartglass.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">read the whole story here<\/span><\/a>.<a name=\"20120127\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps a better question is this: Do your end users or company executives see your IT department as slow and unresponsive? Do users complain that it takes forever to get new applications from IT? Do new development projects take months to complete? Now, I do realize that most IT departments are swamped with work. There &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/is-your-it-department-slow-and-unresponsive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is your IT department slow and unresponsive?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Is your IT department slow and unresponsive? - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Perhaps a better question is this: Do your end users or company executives see your IT department as slow and unresponsive? Do users complain that it takes fore"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity","tag-application-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}