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Skills Augmentation Services - Houston, TX

Need specific skills for implementing a new technology? Budget constraints keeping you from hiring the skill sets you need? Need temporary help with a big project?

Skills Augmentation is a more efficient and effective means of delivering needed knowledge and know how than traditional Staff Augmentation. Skills Augmentation allows you to place the specific skill needed on not only project work but also daily operational work without the need to hire or use a full time consultant. Skills Augmentation is not only the perfect complement for firms in the process of “rightsizing” but also anyone who is deploying or maintaining technologies where full time staffing is inefficient and/or costly.

The Challenge

Houston SMBs face the challenge of economically supporting IT infrastructures that are more in line with that of large-scale enterprises with their modest SMB budgets.

An additional challenge in hiring an internal resource on a fulltime basis where there is only a part-time demand for their skill set is meeting job satisfaction requirements for their professional fulfillment and development. And let’s face it, some skill levels are simply too expensive to hire on a full time basis, such as CCIE's.

Skills redundancy is a big challenge to small and medium sized companies. Many times, a single person has critical skills not found in any other position. If this person goes on vacation or gets sick, there is no one left with the skills to get the job done.

The Solution

Got Net’s Skills Augmentation solution meets and exceeds all of the requirements by enabling businesses to obtain needed skills on an ongoing operational basis for, in most cases, less than the cost of a lower skilled full-time internal resource. It exceeds the requirements, as you are not dependant on one particular resource. Instead, you have a group of resources, which not only increases the possible skills available but also naturally adds a redundant element not equaled by a single fulltime resource.

Where this solution defers from Staff Augmentation is that the supplementation is at the skill level and not the resource level. This is important, as you are not just using a warm body but a specific enterprise level skill.

In its simplest explanation, Skills Augmentation enables you to have the specific skills you need just as if it was mastered by an internal resource, but you only use it, and therefore pay for it, when you need it, and due to natural redundancy it is always available 24/7. This solution eliminates all of the challenges in regard to division of workload, job satisfaction, redundancy, and scalability found in providing such skills internally, and it does it on a far more economic scale.

For more information on Skills Augmentation, contact us today for your free consultation!