Are you ready for fast growth? If success, a large influx of cash or an acquisition propelled you to the next level, would your IT sustain the load: new employees, new locations, new needs?
Fixing or building up an IT infrastructure for a fast-growing company involves making hundreds of IT and best-practice choices that all must be correct. There is little room for trial and error and no room for software beta testing, even when you rely heavily on the cloud.
You need technology that can scale to hundreds or thousands of users in multiple locations and yet be affordable at the beginning when you have only a few users in one place.
You need an IT manager/CIO who can deploy new systems and software in hours or days rather than months, using tools designed to facilitate and optimize the management of complex systems like your cloud environment (M365, Google Workspace) and the cloud itself (Azure, GCP, AWS). You also need an IT manager/CIO who can bring new life to the hardware and software you already own. Servers, PC's, cabling systems, and software need not be replaced when they can easily be upgraded or put to new use. Older PC's can serve as thin clients for Azure Virtual Desktops or gain a longer lifespan with SSDs and extra memory. Aging networks can be beefed up by pulling new data cables alongside the old or by upgrading a WiFi infrastructure. The list goes on.
Throwing more money than necessary at an IT problem is more likely to waste time than to save any.