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Intro to 'Going Virtual' with Your Technology Business

03.06.2009
As the co-chair of Membership for EO Houston, I recently attended our (GLC) in New Orleans, which is an annual summit for EO chapter board members from both North and South America. During one of the breakouts, , founder and CEO of (and several other companies) spoke about virtualizing and decentralizing your business using new technologies to manage the information.

In his talk, Scott covered several reasons that his company outsources/off-shores/automates everything they possibly can. And "it's working for them, but could it work for me?" I began to question.

So as my company's () lease in pricey downtown Houston (Google Map: 1001 McKinney St. Houston, TX 77002) is coming up for renegotiation in 6 months or so, I've started thinking about this more and more seriously...Here are the issues I've been mulling:

-- What does "going virtual" really mean?

-- Can all [tech] companies virtualize easily well?

-- How does a business owner weigh the value of virtualization? (costs/benefits?)