Strengthening Your Company's Technology Status As new technologies proliferate and scream, not only for attention, but also for your enterprise's Information Technology dollars, it is more important than ever to carefully develop a blueprint for future expansion in the IT area. A bank or business can do anything, but it can't do everything--at least not all at once. A haphazard approach to technology acquisitions can be a very costly mistake.

Let Underwood & Associates help you assess your bank's or business's current technology status and explore available options for strengthening this important area. U&A can gather, organize, and present information detailing the extent to which your bank or business is currently using available technology to accomplish its goals. Using this information as a starting point, it can then help you proceed to the next step which is, of course, the exploration of other available options.

In addition to helping evaluate and select the best of the many solutions in a given area, Underwood & Associates can then provide the leadership to help develop and efficiently execute a plan of action. If needed, it can provide a team leader who will oversee the entire implementation process when new hardware and/or software systems are being added.

Underwood & Associates can also help you establish and effectively use a Technology Committee. Such a committee, when organized and led properly, can be an invaluable ally to a bank or business on an ongoing basis in its quest for continued, steady progress in this area. Getting a number of people involved in the process of more efficiently using existing systems as well as selecting and implementing new ones is a challenging, but extremely rewarding, way to ensure a healthy technological future for any enterprise.