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bigger pressure is put on them from an organizational point

of view. Otherwise, they would not earn their salary. What

does it mean? If they don‘t have the support and relevant

“tools,” they won‘t make it. No one is able to solve a hundred

tasks written on A4 papers lying on the table at once.

And information technology is the tool that enables

quicker communication, finding context and entering

data. It opens the door to a lot of other information and

related activities. But everything needs to be perfectly

interconnected and tuned up. Just as for the best

sportsmen just performance is not enough, they need to

have, for example, a well-waxed ski.

Can you describe what consequences bad decisions in

IT have on the company operations?

It is simple. Bad decisions bring inefficiency, which

consequently leads to bankruptcy. In case the inefficiency

is just small, for example, 90% compared to standard,

then the entrepreneur has to request a 10% grant. Only

budgetary organizations can have productivity close

to zero. All people working in business have to run the

business at 100% efficiency, result + profit, from which

taxes are paid so that we all are well-off. And for that,

correct decisions in the field of IT are needed.

How do you resolve problems that could lead to

slowing a business down?

Today, we “heal” information systems, computers,

printers, networks, all these things related to IT ten times

more quickly than hospitals do with human patients.

If your colleague has a stroke, the ambulance will

come in about fifteen minutes. But when some

system “has a stroke,” we are informed about it

in a minute, in three minutes we are working on

the solution and within five minutes it is resolved.

Modern means give us the possibility to treat robots

more quickly than people. And I can say that we

even “treat” them better.

What is your opinion on the current situation, as

almost everything is online today? Can it have some

negative aspects?

There are, of course, some negative aspects. If

the person made money in the past, he/she had

an excise duty once a year. Today, every company

owner has that approximately four times a month.

In some cases, when the “EET” system worked, he/

she had the duty the very second a transaction was

done. This means that the pressure from the state

that wants to collect the money before the person

has it is enormous. Because of that, you need to

have functioning IT so that you can stack up not

only against the competition, but also against tireless

authorities.

On the other hand, it is good that the state

administration is digitalized and that all data reported

to the state are transmitted electronically. It is great

that the internet exists, because you can obtain

relevant information very quickly. I also appreciate

that machines in factories can be adjusted remotely,

because the producer works, for example, in Italy.

To wait for the technician to arrive would take a lot

of valuable hours and it would result in an enormous

cost, which is not realistic for a small company.

Remote work represents a great saving of time,

personnel, and capital resources. And what do we

forfeit for this comfort? A virtually interconnected

world can be dangerous, therefore, digital

cautiousness of today‘s entrepreneurial generation

is needed.

Where is the Moravian-Silesian region in the field

of IT compared with the rest of Czech Republic?

The Moravian-Silesian region is very strong in

industrial automation. When the regional politicians

say that it is a region where something was smelted

or mined, and that heavy industry is still the key one,

they are speaking about the past. They got stuck in

that past twenty years ago. Companies that have

been established since 1989 in our region are big

exporters of smart technologies to foreign countries.

Also, we need to remember that, in our region, we

need to keep jobs for 300,000 people, but not all of

these employees are people that could work in IT

and similar demanding fields. So we need to maintain

those sectors of classic machine production, but that

which is industrially automated. Therefore, we need

brave entrepreneurs who want to create big things

and pay people for everyday prospective work-not just startups with freelancers who are speaking

about challenges.

Thank you for the interview.

Text:

Šárka Kůrková,

Kristýna Eliášová

Foto:

redakce,

Tomáš Juřena

www.ausys.cz

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