Many businesses have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. If you want your business to survive and maintain its operational efficiency, then you need to invest in the right technology. Investing in the cloud will ensure business continuity while helping you save money. Ensuring continuity and efficiency with the cloud The need to stay […]
Do you know why some small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) succeed while others fail during the first five years of operation? Poor leadership is one reason, the lack of capital is another. Another big reason is they didn’t prepare for major disruptions, such as natural disasters and cyberattacks, that can bring their business to a […]
In many organizations, IT planning and budgeting seems to be an afterthought – or covered with the “last year we spent X on IT, so let’s add 3% -5% and focus on other areas”. This approach does not take into consideration your business goals/needs, staff growth, lifecycle demands, new application requirements or even changes mandated by government regulations.
In the past 3 months, we have had a number of prospects and customers approach us about updating their systems, some examples are:
Updating servers and storage that are more than 5 years old
Implementing Wi-Fi for a 125,000 sq.ft. warehouse (plus a network upgrade and redesign)
Upgrading the network firewalls, switches, and Wi-Fi to support new, and expanded, applications in both the cloud and production facilities
Replacing 100+ workstations to start a lifecycle refresh program (and windows O/S)
Overall lifecycle upgrade to support newly acquired division, and increasing performance on all
back-end systems
These may seem like daunting tasks, but just so you understand, they need not break the bank.
There seem to be two types of business owners in the world: those in the know, and those stuck in the past. The latter are at the helm of organizations making news because they’ve collapsed beneath the weight of disasters and cyber-attacks, while the former enjoy the ease of business success, appearing to weather just about anything.
As the leader of your organization, or even the head of your IT team, you rely on resources to help you accomplish your goals. Many organizations use 3rd party IT providers to support projects, services, or perhaps even as a means to transfer the entire organization’s IT function responsibilities externally.
Are you not only prepared for opportunities, but also as secure and protected as you think or as required?
On a recent return flight, my seatmate struck up the usual conversation; was Columbus home, and what did I do for a living. She was traveling to a conference and had never been to the area before.
It won’t be long until hiring starts again. Top performing organizations are always on the lookout for good resources and this year will be no different. With this in mind, it’s essential that you do all you can to attract top talent. One of the best and simplest ways to do that is to improve your hiring process.
It’s no coincidence that we have so many ways to say we made a mistake: botched, flubbed, mishandled, misjudged, mucked, messed, screwed or goofed up – just to name a few.
As a leader, you’ll hear each of these (some more than others, and likely some more explicit than the ones I’ve named here) pretty often.
With Governor DeWine’s extension of our stay at home order to at least May 1st, and the recognition that the peak in virus cases in Ohio may not come until the middle of May, we find ourselves in a sort of Twilight Zone of personal and business limbo for at least the next 30 to 60 days.