Techcafeteria Mission Statement

Techcafeteria Values

  • Social Enterprise - While being funded and supported financially by government, foundations and supporters is good, self-sustaining revenue practices are better. The social services that your organization provides must weather financial and social trends that might restrict giving and available funds. Supporting your mission-related service with a revenue-focused business increases opportunties for employment, contributes to the communities in which you serve, and frees you from dependency intermittent funding.
  • Strategic Planning - With steady income, you can better plan your business. Setting goals and the strategies to achieve them lights the road to growth and improvement. In particular, when deploying technology, you avoid wasted expense and unfortunate investments when you have a clear vision of what your technology will do for you today, tomorrow, and in the future.
  • Process Management - The strategies that drive your organization to mission effectiveness rely on processes. Technology plays a key role in automating, enhancing and integrating the processes that make up your business activities. It's in directly tying the technology tools to the business outcomes that you best realize the investments, and it's here where web and wireless technology, along with standardized, open data management platforms, can provide the largest return on investment.
  • Innovation - We live in a time when the rapid advancements in technology are accompanied by a very low requirement for investment. There are huge opportunities out there, but to capitalize on them, you must break out of the old business thinking and habits. Take the risks; win the rewards. And remain aware that not taking the risk of developoing and investing in internet strategies is possibly the biggest risk of all. Ask the telecom industry, classified ad departments and the RIAA how well their businesses models have done by standing still.
  • Access to Information - Finally, we are big fans of sharing and collaboration. We support standards, and open technology, which can be commercially licensed or offered as open source, but does not restrict you in any way from using your data as you see fit in order to run your business.