There is a popular quote by Ralph Marston, author of The Daily Motivator, which encourages “Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.” While the saying may be guidance for an individual the attitude can be implemented by any company to elevate their business, improve employee productivity, and ultimately promote better results for their bottom line.
Companies that fail to raise their level of performance fall into the dangerous trap of settling, a position that is much more dangerous than it sounds. The truth is settling won’t leave you where you’re at; it’s actually the first step backwards. This is why it’s imperative that companies constantly implement performance enhancing methods that serve to drive their business forward.
Evaluating performance inside a company often means reviewing employee performance, examining market trends, assessing overall business strategy, studying cost of operations, and analyzing statistics, and while these are legitimate areas that should be considered there is often an area that fails to attract a performance review despite its significant impact on all the other components.
A computer network system ties together every part of a company, making it possible for employees to create, retrieve and share files, access software and hardware, use the Internet, communicate internally with other employees or directly with customers and clients, store and secure information, track shipments and deliveries, etc. When that network system is healthy all of these functions can be done with little trouble but when that health is compromised the performance within a company suffers dramatically.
When a company examines the performance level of their computer network system they will get a good idea as to how the rest of those areas will grade. Healthy networks enable employees to be more productive and work more efficiently, prevent valuable files and information from becoming lost, and promote more reliable communication.
Successful companies recognize that by raising the performance level of their network they will directly impact the performance level of those other areas. These companies understand that if they are to meet their expectations they must improve the performance of their computer network system.
The solution to improving the performance of a computer network system is as simple as the answer sounds, performance software.
Installing performance software should be the first step any company takes when they want to improve their operations. Companies like Diskeeper have designed and developed performance software that is capable of not just improving performance of a network but protecting it from common dangers like fragmentation, a condition in which pieces of individual files and free space on a disk are not contiguous, but rather broken up and scattered around the disk, that threatens to destroy its ability to function efficiently, productively, and reliably.
There is a good reason why a company should install performance software before trying to address problems in other areas; a computer network that does not have performance software will progressively get worse. This simply means that no matter what actions are taken to solve those other areas the problem will remain because the network has not been restored to health.
On the other hand, when performance software is installed on a computer network the difficulties in those other areas often get corrected because the issues of the unhealthy network are no longer causing the problems that were slowing down the business.
