Do some digging, ask the difference between your business needs and wants, and plan ahead to create an information technology budget that gives you confidence in the future.

Enterprise CMS or Open Source? Simple enough question, but you might not be able to answer so easily. Many business owners and marketers must choose a content management system (CMS) to launch, or relaunch, their website. At first, you hope to do a little research, buy into a mature platform, and then move on with other projects. But there are a ton of great systems that can easily get your business online.

Haworth saw an opportunity to reach new audiences through an online store. They needed a system to handle their customizable products and their established process for production.

Budget, schedule, and scope. The three words that qualify every project. Most of us formulate a plan to reach our goal within these constraints. A direction. Unfortunately, the wrong plan can get the same results as no plan at all. 

"Why do we have a website?"

It was a great question. One that stuck in my head for days after our client meeting. I kept turning it over- trying to think in broad terms to find a simple, clear answer.