New technologies are emerging rapidly these days, but there’s a fine line between adopting the newest tech that helps your business grow and getting bogged down with unnecessary complexity. In the latest edition of Inc. Leadership Forum Expert Insights, “26 Ways to Keep Technology Flexible as Your Business Evolves,” BL Companies CEO Carolyn Stanworth explains how one of the firm’s core values provides the answer. Here is Carolyn’s contribution to the latest edition of Expert Insights:
We keep our technology flexible by continuously reviewing it through the lens of business value and people impact. We ask whether it makes our work easier, more efficient, and more profitable, and whether it integrates with the systems we already use. Agility is one of our core values, so we avoid rigid, long-term commitments that can slow us down as technology evolves. Instead, we treat technology as an ongoing investment. We’ve seen this firsthand in our survey department, where adopting UAVs and advanced scanning tech significantly expanded capabilities and efficiency. Staying flexible ensures our tools evolve with our business, not against it.
Read what others had to say on the topic here.