Mainstream/Realist

Generally speaking, smaller companies in mature industries usually fall into the Mainstream / Realist personality type. (Many also fit the Cautious / Follower profile, as we’ll see later.) The Mainstream / Realist company views technology as giving them a distinct competitive advantage. Your business is open to new ideas and concepts but is slower to adopt them than the Leader/Innovator. Your company is not willing to bear the cost of pioneering technology but you definitely see a value in being a technology leader.

Personality Strengths
• Your business is open minded to exploring new ideas and concepts
• Your willing to adopt whatever idea represents the best result
• Your company reduces the risk associated with new ideas and concepts
• Adopted ideas and concepts have a high rate of success

Personality Limiters
• Your business is in danger of being close-minded at times.
• You have to process more options than the other personality types
• You have a lower ROI potential associated with new ideas and concepts than the Leader/Innovator type.
• You are slower to adapt to unpredictable environments

If your company has the Mainstream / Realist personality, a Hybrid of Managed IT Care and As You Need IT Care may be the best fit. In a combined Managed IT Care and time/materials arrangement, you leave some aspects of your technology management up to us and on other aspects you take the lead and engage our support when needed. A hybrid of Managed and As You Need IT Care offers you limited, predictable, fixed IT expenses and partially reduces your technology risk.