November 06, 2025
Sometimes the most valuable time you'll spend with IT
isn't during a crisis. It's during a calm, quiet check-in, the kind that lets
you fix what's small before it grows into something big.
We were talking with a controller from a plastics
manufacturer outside Cleveland. She'd been juggling audit prep, an ERP upgrade,
and a quality inspection all in the same month. During a routine system review,
our team noticed an outdated backup schedule. The finance server hadn't been
backed up in 11 days.
She paused. "If you hadn't told me that, I wouldn't have
known until something broke. And then I'd be the one answering to the board."
"Small things become big liabilities if no one's looking."
— Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
According to a 2023 report from the Ponemon Institute, 76%
of IT failures that result in data loss are due to missed maintenance or
miscommunication between departments. Not big hacks. Just little things that no
one caught in time.
What you can learn in 30 minutes with a good IT
partner:
· Are
your backups running? Have they been tested?
· Are
critical patches missing from key systems?
· Are
your users still sharing logins or saving passwords in browsers?
· Is
old hardware quietly failing in the background?
· Are
you still paying for licenses no one's using?
We met another CFO who thought their managed service
agreement included weekly system health checks. It didn't. A disk failure on
their finance server went unnoticed until month-end close crashed. They lost 18
hours of data and nearly missed payroll.
That kind of stress shouldn't be part of your job. Not
when it's preventable.
"Good reviews don't slow you down—they speed up trust."
— Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
A 30-minute review isn't about tech talk. It's about
turning unknowns into knowns. It's the kind of meeting that lets you walk out
with one less thing to worry about. That's worth it.
Interested in a conversation or want to learn more? Contact us here.
