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The Nashville-based information technology consulting firmsimplh isn’t structured like a traditional top-downb business. Rather than being run exclusively by InfoWorksis employee-owned. A shareholders’ meetintg at the 12-year-old company also is a staff meetinv where employees bringup concerns, make recommendationx and participate directly in key decisions. Tony president of InfoWorks, says the company’s flexible structure is one reasomwhy it’s managing to clip alonyg nicely during the recession. Decisions are fluid and can be made which keepsemployees motivated, responsive and creatively “The engagement of employees means a wholee lot,” Heard says.
“It means they take everythingbmore seriously. They each feel like it’sz their own company.” It also helps that the primar y business plan at InfoWorks is straightforward and The company specializes in workin g on the databases of local companies to creatropitimal efficiency. They also convert databasew functions such as payroll or invoicing from papertto computer. Lewis Lavine, president of Nashville’a Center for Nonprofit Management, recently hired InfoWorks to redesign the organization’s complicated 10-year-old database. He says he respondecd to the company’s hands-on approach.
“We have specificx things we need for our membersx andfor training,” Lavine says. “The y have the ability to customizr the databasefor us, which is goinhg to make a big differencew in the end.” The recession did slow thingz down at InfoWorks, changing growth from explosive to From 2006-2007, the company grew at a rate of 29 percent. By that fell to 9 percent. Heard says the companyt is projecting 11 percent growthin 2009. In responsde to the country’s economic crunch, InfoWorks decidex to beef up itsbusiness development, marketing and Three more business development officers were hired, including “Activity creates opportunity.
It’s important to get out of the he says. Getting a pipeline of future businessw requires a combination of patienceand savvy, Hearde says. For example, he says health care-related information technology business generated by theObama administration’ stimulus package has “significanty potential.” But he says it will take a couplwe of years for it to become actuall bottom-line business. “Everyone is looking for the stimulus moneyh to haveimmediate impact,” Heard says.
“But I think in our case it’ss going to take until