Business, Leadership, Technology

Timing Is Everything – When To Introduce IT to a Growing Startup

The necessity to build for the future in a rapidly changing environment is the biggest barrier that companies face in the adolescent startup phase.

Michel de Fontaine

Contributing CIO

The growth journey of companies can be described using the metaphor of human development, beginning with a start-up as an infant and the mature company as an adult. In between those two points, there’s an adolescent who’s growing fast and aspires to be an adult but is still learning what that really involves. Likewise, an early-stage company will go through a phase of ...