In today’s podcast we spoke to Lisa Nichols. Lisa is the CEO of Technology Partners which she cofounded with her husband, Greg, who is the President and COO of the company. Technology Partners is a certified women business enterprise that provides IT staffing and solutions to companies all over the United States. Lisa is also a blogger, speaker, and a podcast host of “Something Extra”.
Both Lisa and her husband started out in the corporate world with companies such as McDonnell Douglas, Edward Jones, and Master Card. They did that for ten years. Lisa had the accounting/financial side where Greg had the technology background, and with that they started Technology Partners in 1994. They started small and scaled very slowly, but steadily.
Around 2006 they opened five offices across the U.S because they saw their competition doing this. Realizing the St. Louis office was the only one that was sustainable on its own they closed all the others and directed all their focus and expertise on it.
According to Lisa there has never been so much data as there is today, so you need a data strategy plan. This plan will help with collecting the data which then needs to be turned into information to give you an insight into your business.
Key Takeaways
“One of the challenges for me is to be able to scale back and say no, let’s focus on what we’re really good at.”- Lisa Nichols
“The less is more, pick one thing, become experts in that area.”- Tabetha Sheaver
“Don’t go and try to be like everyone else.”- Lisa Nichols
Contact Info
Technologypartners.net
lnichols@technologypartners.net
