Tech Check, a national initiative launched this summer which offers small companies a discounted audit of their business systems is proving popular.
Tech Check is operated by local enterprise boards and is designed to help small companies improve their productivity and profitability. It is highly subsidised and only open to firms with fewer than 50 employees. This means that for €150 technology experts from a panel of firms approved by City and County Enterprise Boards will visit a company twice and produce an report on the systems and technologies it is using, along with a list of practical actions that could be taken to improve the business.
Guest Speaker Damien Mulley launched the Wicklow County Enterprise board’s programme in July by explaining how Web 2.0 technologies such as blogging, podcasting and videocasting on social networking websites like Youtube and FaceBook can fit into small business marketing strategies, while Wicklow CEB chief executive Sheelagh Daly gave an overview of how the programme works.
More than a dozen businesses signed up at the launch in Newtownmountkennedy’s Marriott Hotel, while others signed up online at www.wicklowceb.ie/Techcheck. There are only ten more places left in the first round of Wicklow checks, which will be carried out by eight independent experts from around the country on Wicklow CEB’s panel.
The Dublin City enterprise board launched its TechCheck programme on June 21, with a talk by Colm Ryan of 3rd I on how to calculate the cost of downtime and contributions from IT Resource and Zilcom on how technology had improved their businesses.
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