Top 10 reasons why every (Educational) Organisation must have their 'dedicated IT cell'

We are living in a digital era, where everything around us is getting digitize. Digital revolution and Information Technology has deeply affected  the way we used to exchange the information and communicate with other.

Some of the key challenges for educational organisations are facing today are - Admission, Administration & Academics and Employability. 

Why an Organization need to adapt IT Solutions ?

Digital revolution & IT has a huge possibilities, and can play instrumental role in current scenario. An organization can use it as an opportunity to easily reach to the prospective user, manage and analyse huge amount of data quickly. IT can be used in almost every sectors and functional areas of the organization to improve the performance and, can increase overall efficiency of the organization. 

Digital Marketing, ERP solutions, social media management are few examples. Today IT plays key role and every steps and functions of the organization, and it cannot be ignored any more.

 An organization must be able to choose Right IT Solution and Right IT Strategy, which is possible only if a organization have their own dedicated IT Team or a trusted IT solution partner which should function as a department of the organization instead of vendor. Most of the IT solutions that the organisation have adapted today is based on vendor available Solution. Due to lack of internal expertise organization vendor pushes their available product with minimum customization and their purpose is to sell, NOT to provide solution. These solution may be good or even best for short time, but cannot assure 100% solution for long time. There is a need of "Visionary IT Team" in every organization, who can define the requirements as per the dynamic need of organization and refine the solution to changing need of the organization.

 that are essential part for reaching, communicating and connecting with modern digital society and users.


Why dedicated IT cell is required ?

1. To maintain the Organizational Branding in Digital space & streamline entire IT activity of the organization
2. Connecting & Communicating to stakeholders & society about organizational activities
3. Keep track of SEO, SMM, Blogs and Articles to keep track of visitors activity and their information needs
4. Digital Marketing & Exclusive Lead generation for the organization for admission
5. To define & select right IT solution for the organization 
6. To select right vendor to procure IT solution
7. To choose right IT implementation​ strategy
8. To Define and refine the IT requirements of various departments and functions of Organization
9. Free flow of information at Organization level and their Integration to present holistic view of organization.
10. Tracking​ the post-implementation performance of IT solution and fine tuning them for optimum performance

Point number 1-4 above are based on external branding of the organization and plays very important role in attracting new prospective students to the organization, where as 5-10 are for increasing the functional efficiency and quality of work in the organization like academics & administration, which can be communicated using point 1-4.