The LCO Group: Personalized Solutions for Maximized ROI

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With information and technology being the basic foundation of business operations, business IT support is taking a bigger bite out of a business’ budget. For a stable bottom-line growth, it is highly crucial for a business to keep their technology support costs under control without sacrificing the quality of service. The LCO Group, an IT consulting firm based in New York City, understands that maintaining that balance of cost and services is paramount to getting the best value, having achieved the same for its clients over the past decade and a half.

When it comes to technology and its implementation The LCO Group does not believe that ‘one-size fits all.’ They take the time to fully understand a client’s business, especially its unique aspects, ensuring a complete understanding of how technology is implemented within an organization. They then work with management to vet out inefficiencies, and discuss how technology can be leveraged in new and better ways to enhance productivity. Once a technological road map has been laid out, a customized budget-friendly project plan and a proactive preventive maintenance plan is created: one that gives firms predictable costs, which they desire, while minimizing any down time or loss of productivity.

The LCO Group differentiates itself by providing its customers (from a variety of industries including financial services, legal, architecture, and other industries) a one stop shop including network support, cyber security solutions, software development, website development etc. Conscientious and talented employees are the key component to their organization and they hire dedicated, skilled people and continue to invest in them to make sure they remain up to date on the latest technological challenges. Their team approach enables them to deliver outstanding service at a very cost effective price.

In an interview with CIO Applications, Doug Jacoby and Kenny Natiss, Managing Partner’s of The LCO Group, discusses the firm’s services that have propelled them to great heights in the managed IT services realm.

What are the key challenges that your clients face on a regular basis in the managed IT services market? And how do you solve them with your services?

One of our biggest challenges is the implementation of security and controls without hindering productivity. Our approach is to fully understand any relevant compliance factors such as HIPAA, Sarbanes, FINRA, DFS, GDPR, NIST, and others.

We then make recommendations and work with management and business owners to come up with a sensible approach to implement appropriate solutions – introduced in sensible phases - that won’t negatively impact the organization. We understand that for some firms, security is paramount, while it may be less of a priority to others. That is one of the reasons we tailor our recommendations to each and every firm we work with.

What would you say are the benefits of collaborating with you? What methodology do you adopt in offering your managed IT services offering?

The biggest benefit of working with The LCO Group is that we really take the time to understand a customer’s business, its needs as well as their budgets. We then craft an effective technology plan that is right for each and every customer. Additionally, we are very flexible in the way a customer may engage us. It can be on a project basis, break fix, partially managed, or fully managed basis. These factors are what make our approach very unique in the MSP space.

Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, we focus on creating an appropriate plan for every client

We pride ourselves in providing highly effective solutions at cost effective price points.

Could you elaborate on a customer success story to substantiate The LCO Group’s excellent service cadre?

One of our more recent memorable customer stories involves an internet startup firm that had come up with a very interesting product. Their team had strong programming knowledge but lacked proficiency in security, networking, or desktop support. We were hired to create – from scratch - a fully functional, scaleable, and easily managed IT infrastructure that could be fully managed by internal personnel (as their end-goal was to be bought out by a major vendor in a few years and did not want to be reliant on 3rd party vendors). Sure enough, three years later, Apple offered them a large sum of money for the acquisition, and were pleased that this firm had a fully functional IT department that could scale as necessary without relying on external vendors.

Our methods are tried and proven. Having been refined over the last decades of our business we implement a true team approach.

Moving on, how do you envision the growth of your organization in 2019 and in the years to come?

We will continue to grow our focus on cloud computing, cyber security, virtual CTO services, programming and database services. We will also continue to invest in highly skilled personnel to further strengthen our team.

About the future of the organization, what plans do you have in store for The LCO Group? Where do you see this company in the next few years?

We plan to continue to expand our proven model to additional markets in the U.S. having proven our model in the New York Metro area, one of the most demanding markets in the U.S. We will continue to implementing our one stop shop, flexible engagement approach that has been so beneficial to our customers.