Moving Office Technology – Hoe To Avoid Chaos

Many business people, unless they’re IT literate, often break out in a cold sweat of apprehension at the thought of moving their technology from one office to another.

Now that’s not entirely irrational because there have been some disasters in this domain, some of which have actually made the news.  Yet it really doesn’t have to be a problem and the vast majority of such moves go forward smoothly.

However, that’s not by accident. So, although we’re relocation specialists not IT gurus, here are a few top tips:

• Get an IT expert in relocations in to help assess your installation and plan for its removal. If you have one in-house fine. If not, be prepared to spend some money on this – it’ll be small potatoes in the scheme of things and insignificant when measured against the costs of a potential IT debacle in your new premises on day-1.

• Put someone ‘heavyweight’ in charge of making sure that the IT plan is part of the overall relocation plan and that together they’re tightly managed as an integrated whole. It’s not unknown to find companies that have two entirely separate plans (one for IT) and the result can be chaos.

• If you can, try to get your IT kit set up in the new location as the first step and tested thoroughly. It takes a little doing (and perhaps some weekend working) but it’s far easier getting the IT right when there aren’t desks, copiers, chairs and pot plants in the way making access to cables, servers and routers difficult etc.

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Preparing Your Drive For Removals Day

If your domestic property is one with a drive our van can get up, then that’s great.

To be frank, it makes our job typically easier than if we’re parked on street with all the complications of passing traffic and pedestrians to cope with (though as professional relocation specialists, we’re very used to doing so!).

To prepare for our arrival, there are a few things we’d normally recommend:

Try to make sure that all obstructions are moved or cleared away. Please remember also that a van is likely to be considerably taller than your car.

Typically, that means things like flower pots, troughs and garden furniture. It might though more rarely include items such as ornamental free-standing trees, gazebos and statues.

Of course, we can help if need be and we’ll try and highlight any potential access issues if we visit beforehand.

We’ve mentioned before in blogs that children, pets and manoeuvring trucks, don’t always sit happily together! So, it would normally be advisable if kids, dogs and cats could be kept safely away from the vehicle at all times.

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