Businesses need to be aware of the role technology plays in today’s operations. Not only do you stand to lose ground on your competition if you fail to properly invest in your technology, it can have other negative effects on your business as well. Listed below are eight things that can go wrong if you aren’t constantly looking to build a technologically savvy business.
The United States Federal Trade Commission’s mandate is to prevent fraud and promote consumer protection in today's interconnected world, where the digital landscape continues to evolve at a frenzied pace. The FTC recognizes the importance of safeguarding consumer information and has implemented their Safeguards Rule as a means to ensure that businesses protect sensitive data from unauthorized access and misuse. Listed below is a look at the Safeguards Rule and what you need to know about it in regard to your organization.
How does your organization handle communication? Does it struggle to properly use its technology and collaboration tools? If so, we have some tips that can help you avoid the most common collaboration mistakes, especially those related to data security. Read on to learn how you can ensure you’re not putting your data at risk needlessly with inappropriate collaboration security mistakes.
When you consider your business’ investments, you probably think about things such as the hardware your team uses and the software this hardware supports. You might think about the furniture you’ve purchased to outfit your office. On the other hand, one often overlooked but critical element that needs some level of investment is your employee satisfaction.
With collaboration remaining a vital component of any successful business, it’s imperative to foster productivity and innovation through strategic implementation of technology solutions designed for this express purpose. Listed below is a discussion of some of the aspects of collaboration you need to know to do it more effectively, as well as technology that facilitates this process.
Businesses use all kinds of sayings to try to draw in customers. One of the core selling points of managed IT services is that “it pays for itself”. This is more than just marketing. The multiple services that make up managed IT services all help a business save time and money, but when added together, it can really help the bottom line of a business more than most services they can use. In this week’s blog we thought we would go through the core elements of a managed IT services agreement to show how it really does pay for itself.
You’re probably familiar with the concept of a mission statement, particularly in terms of your business as a whole. However, did you know that you don’t need to stop there? You can—and we’d argue, should—establish more specific organizational missions for your different departments. Consider how you can benefit from creating a mission for your IT team to uphold throughout its operations, and how you might go about doing so.
Compliance is an imperative element of many businesses’ requirements, with severe penalties as a consequence if the prescribed standards are not met. Even more critically, most compliance requirements and regulations are put in place for the welfare of not only the business, but its clientele as well. This makes it important to know which apply to your business, and how to meet them fully.
Information technology is a constantly changing industry, with practices shifting all the time. As a result, anyone you have working on your company’s IT should be actively seeking out various certifications to confirm that they are keeping up to date on modern trends and standards. To help you accomplish this, we’ve put together a brief list of valuable IT certifications that your IT personnel—whether they’re in-house employees or outsourced professionals—should have.
In good times and bad, profitability is the priority for most businesses. However, this priority is usually a challenging one to achieve, but did you know that there are a few different ways that investing in a relationship with a managed service provider can help increase your productivity—and as a result, your overall profitability?
Every office has that one employee that doesn’t seem to care that they are working in a room with other people. You know the type: They have day-old food on their desk, there are papers and other unnecessary items strewn about the desktop, things are sticky and smell strange. The funny part is they seem comfortable with that mess. Listed below are the benefits of keeping your workspace clean.
We’ve talked about what productivity is, how it can be measured, and how to protect it from what could impact it negatively. To bring this brief series to a close, let’s talk about what you can do to maximize it as much as possible for your business’ benefit.
We’ve been spending the past few weeks examining productivity and how to optimize it. It's now necessary to address the problems that could throw the proverbial wrench into the works.
Don’t worry, though, we’re also going to touch on how you can avoid and/or mitigate the issues that might threaten your productivity.
This blog recently discussed productivity, and how it can be defined. We wanted to continue our deep dive into the concept of productivity with an examination of the different ways that you can measure your own.
How can you keep track of your productivity? Continue reading.
Productivity has been, is now, and likely will forever be heralded as one of the preeminent goals for any business. As such, it makes sense to understand as much as we can about it. To do so, we’ll be examining a different aspect of productivity for the next few weeks.
First up: what is productivity, exactly?
Meetings are a common hold-up for getting things done in the office, an idea that is certainly not unfounded. Research supports the premise that meetings impact productivity. Consider what the numbers say and how you can work to ensure meetings don’t influence your organization’s productivity in a negative way.
No one can tell when a disaster is going to hit your organization or what form that disaster is going to take. The cause could be a storm, human error, or some freak occurrence that nobody could have seen coming. In order to get back up and running after one of these incidents a company needs to have a strong business continuity strategy. An essential part of this strategy is knowing how to recover data depending on the way it’s lost. Getting data back and working for your business is the only way to stave off ruin. Listed below is a look at data recovery strategies that can literally save your business.
How does your organization manage its IT? Do you have an in-house team, and how busy are they with all of the hustle and bustle of their everyday duties? Do they have time to address the many challenges and requests made of them? If not, then perhaps you should consider a different model for your IT management. Fortunately, we have just the opportunity for you, and you won’t want to miss out on it.
All jobs have aspects that are simply dull or unengaging; nothing can be exciting all the time. This week we wanted to focus on these rote tasks and what you can do to make them have less of an impact on your time and job fulfillment. Turns out, the key to solving this issue stems from technology, specifically the ability to automate said tasks.
The idea of a four-day workweek has been popular for a while now, to the point where it is actively being tested in practical settings. Below is a discussion on how successful this approach has been (spoiler alert: it’s been quite successful indeed).
