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December 2019
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Gary Lutz and Leo Reap
IT Resource
Member since September 2018 • Learn more at www.itrw.net
Do you know the correct amount of
technology your business needs to stay
competitive and secure? For businesses
where cost and competitiveness is king,
this is an essential question with many
variables to consider. What is your
business producing? Who are your
clients? Is it a business on the rise or
are you starting to see a decline?
Every answer will help you to locate
the technologies you need and, just as
important, the ones you don’t need.
The team at IT Resource can help you
find the answers and plot a course for
implementing short-term and long-
term strategies.
“Manufacturing is really at the core of what’s
moving Michigan forward,” said Gary Lutz,
president and a senior partner for IT Resource
(ITR). “Technology is becoming more essential for
manufacturers who want to be leaders in their field.
We want to guide clients towards quality, long-term
IT solutions that work.”
Having worked in a variety of IT consultant
roles, Lutz and Leo Reap, ITR’s vice president and
senior partner, saw a need for businesses to have
quality technical services that focused on business
goals and growth instead of technology.
“Solutions in manufacturing used to be about
throwing more people at a problem, now it’s about
throwing technology at it to expedite processes and
efficiencies,” explained Reap. “But a lot of times
you’ll either throw every technology you can think of
at it and hope one works or you worry about all
technology and get stuck in place. Both of those
responses can ruin a business.”
Technology is evolving faster than ever and
having a reliable consultant available can be in
your best interest. That’s where IT Resource comes
in. Your leadership team may connect with IT
Resource and discuss ways to locate the right
technology needed to succeed and do so in a
cost-effective way.
Customer service is at the heart of what IT Resource does and their
team (pictured above: Jenn Buchin, Gary Lutz, and Leo Reap) is
on-hand to meet your technology and business needs
“We’ll look at assessing your business requirements,
not your technology,” said Lutz. “How does your
business work? How can technology support an
existing business plan and create the efficiencies to
make everything else successful?”
Conversations with IT Resource begin with
a conversation that your team can have in-house.
Start by asking some key questions: Are we afraid of
our technology? What are we willing to spend? What
are our competitors doing? What do we worry about?
What should we worry about? Where should we focus?
“It’s no secret that determining measurable
success in IT can be a challenge,” Reap pointed out.
“When you buy standard property insurance and a
sprinkler goes off and fries a machine on your floor,
the benefits to having that insurance is clear. With
IT, silence is golden. The ‘insurance’ is working
when nothing happens.”
Despite the uncertainties surrounding technology,
your business can’t afford to stay frozen in fear.
“The future of manufacturing may be very
different than today. There will still be tremendous
human interaction, but the wave of technology-
driven solutions is only going to increase,” Lutz
stated. “We can help you locate the technologies
that will, in real-time, lead to more efficiencies,
higher productivity and bigger bottom line for
your business.”
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