How to Make your People be Productive with Tony Chiappetta

<div class= "et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light"> <div class="et_pb_text_inner"> <p>Jon talks to Tony Chiappetta, CEO of AMC Modern IT. Modernize your organization’s IT and then train your staff to actually use it. Their goal: Let’s make your people more productive!</p> <p>Tony Chiappetta’s IT company is all about “heartbeats, not hardware™”</p> <p>Chiappetta, CEO of California-based Advanced Microcomputing Concepts (AMC) Modern IT, is so passionate about the phrase, that he trademarked it.</p> <p>As an entrepreneur for almost 20 years, it’s been his mission to change the IT game to people-first instead of focused on fixing tech problems.</p> <p>“There’s so much more to IT than security,” Chiappetta said. “You have such an opportunity to make your people, your company, your life so much better. And people have the potential to have so much excitement about technology. When things run smoothly, it makes everything else so much more fun. … And you can get so many more things done at work, that you can get so much more out of life.”</p> <p>Chiappetta has never understood why IT has to rely on so many tools and applications. Over the last several years, he’s streamlined his company and his clients to run almost entirely under Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. That has allowed the vast majority of his clients – which are companies on a global level with between 20-500 employees – to quickly and effectively channel their IT needs under one platform.</p> <p>Whether Chiappetta’s company runs a client’s IT division or complements a client’s dedicated IT team, the “less is more” mantra has been a game-changer. That especially has been the case over the last 12 months since Covid-19 forced most employees to work from home.</p> <p>“The clients who were modernized under Microsoft 365, they were just easily able to take their laptops home and work from there,” Chiappetta said.</p> <p>Two years after graduating from the University of Southern California in 2000, Chiappetta decided