SURVEY LAUNCH: ‘Test Your Tech Savvy’

Is your home-office computer setup better than the one in your office?

We’ve launched a new survey, “Test Your Tech Savvy,” to gauge emerging trendlines in the important area of technolgy adoption and use among finance and accounting professionals. You can join the survey panel here, and, as always, you’ll get the topline results.

And the responses are already rolling in. What’s on your wish list?

Here’s one of our favorite comments so far:

If I could change anything about my company’s technology setup it would be management’s recognition of the value dual monitors, laptops, and faster reponse times with systems. We are consistently told by management we are in “high performance positions”; however, there is nothing high performance about the equipment in our offices. (Most of us have better computer setups in our own homes than we do on our office desk). Since many senior managers are not hands-on when it comes to computers they don’t recognize the time and money loss that goes with less than “high performance” computers and systems.

Here’s another:

I would like to see our firm develop an ongoing strategic plan, with the commitment to continual maintenance and replacements. We tend to love the technology and are fine with making initial financial investments, but we need to realize that technology requires attention beyond that.

And:

Paperflow from clients to be more paperless, my own company’s ftp portal.

Of course, some people are never satisfied:

We have two monitors for everyone now. Let’s make it three a piece.

What’s your view? Join the discussion here.

Posted on July 13, 2008