YOUR BUSINESS AND ITS NETWORK

In this post, I'll be introducing you to networking your business according to its structure.

As a  start-up owner, by now you must have considered the location and the kind of business you want to go into. The kind of business will determine how you'll set up the IT structures within. You also should have considered your budget, the kind of people you are working with and the kind of person you are. If you have employees that forget to turn of the lights after a work day then you know you'll have problems with your power management. If they are the kind that are addicted to the internet, you'll definitely have problems with productivity and work ethics, especially if your business is the type that has little to do with the internet. If this is the case, then I guess you might want to enroll such employees into a training course on, "The Internet-phobic Personnel and How To Become One." 

Whatever the business, you'll need to consider the business structure with respect to its departments and how you want your "intradepartmental" and "interdepartmental" communication to be via the networked computers.

Of course, employees within a department should be able to share files with each other without having  to move from their seats. It now depends on whether you want different departments to be on the same network. For example, you might want the sales department to be connected to the marketing department and not to the research department or the transport department to be connected to the sales department and not the human resources department.

Another thing to put into consideration is the number of employees you have and wish to have in the next few months. This is necessary because it will determine the number of computer systems, the kind and number of networking devices you need to get. Learn more about departmental networking in the upcoming network devices and subnetting tutorials.

Coming in my next free services: Basic network design for a small office. You don't just mount computer systems in an office and connect them, you have to take cost into consideration. See the different ways computers can be arranged in an office to reduce cost and increase performance.