IT technologies change rapidly, and typical product life cycles are as short as 3 to 6 months. It is highly probable that the IT staffs hired by SMEs cannot keep up with the pace of technology innovations when continuous IT training is not provided. How do the typical SMEs avoid being left in the dust and lost the opportunities to gain competitive edges with new technologies?

In reality, with relatively limited resources, it is unrealistic for SMEs to provide regular technical training to their IT staff. There is no reason to invest money in the IT staffs' technical skills by providing them with expensive IT trainings because Information Technology is usually not the core business for most of the SMEs in Hong Kong, and the 'investment' can never generate profit for the company. Further, in the dynamic IT job market where turnover rate is high, it is better to to spend moeny in a more intelligent way. The simplest way to cope with these problems is to leverage the IT experts of an IT outsourcing provider, and share the high cost of professional IT management team with other SMEs. It is the job of IT management service providers to keep their staffs up-to-date with the newest technologies, not the SMEs.

IT management outsourcing is the smart way for SMEs to keep up-to-date with IT technologies.