The pressure on enterprise IT departments is relentless. There’s a large and complex communications and network estate to manage. Multiple lines of business applications to control. New offices and branches to bring online, others to take offline. Issues to resolve. It’s a full time job just maintaining the status quo.

So where does that leave you? Firefighting most probably. Not having time for what’s really important – strategy, planning, making recommendations to the board or setting an evolution agenda for the business. And it doesn’t h­­­elp when your network provider has more interest in sweating yesterday’s infrastructure, not helping you move towards tomorrow’s.