Small business employees wear a lot of hats. Even without a formal
computer support department, in addition to a "real" job someone takes on the
role of internal computer guru -- the one everybody instinctively yells for when
the laser printer jams, the database locks up or toolbars and files disappear.
So the internal guru gets stuck with the company's PC problems, without
the benefit of classroom training on hardware or software. Up until now, small businesses
faced a tough choice: keep their fingers crossed and hope their internal guru can quickly
and effectively solve routine tech problems, or swallow hard and pay lofty hourly rates
for professional computer consultants. All of this is about to change in a big way.
Organized into simple, bite-sized chunks for busy people, What Your
Computer Consultant Doesn't Want You to Know presents 101 insider tech support
tips, on hardware, software and data protection, to make your organization more
self-sufficient.
Although the primary audience is small business owners, managers and
internal gurus, the book is equally indispensable for trusted advisors to small
businesses, such as accountants, management consultants, and attorneys, as well as
technology consultants that want to spend less time "hand holding".
In this do-it-yourself guide, you'll learn to boost individual and
workgroup productivity, distinguish between fact, opinion, and pure fiction, figure out
which tasks to continue outsourcing, get empowered to take control of technology, improve
the reliability of computer systems and provide a more immediate response to co-workers'
tech support problems.
Jeff Zbar, U.S. SBA 2001 Small Business Journalist of the Year, says it
all in the book's Guest Foreword, "Where was this book when I was setting up and
managing my own small business computer system?"