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Harquahala should not be managed in-house . The people he hired needed to focus on strategic management of data – not back office maintenance . “ Key to my success here is having great people managing the data ,” he says . “ That ’ s been critical .”
Since he can ’ t afford dedicated people for functional roles such as web development or IT procurement , he now turns much of this work over to third parties like CDW . He hired a few essential people : a project manager , a database administrator and someone to manage the critical SharePoint platform that supports all of NAES ’ s power plants . A business intelligence analyst will complete the team for the time being .
“ I brought in people who understood what building an enterprise business is all about ,” Dionisio recalls . “ I now run the smallest IT shop I have ever had , but we do more with less . I ’ m a big
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