In today’s world, it is very important to stay on top of the technology used in business. Most SMEs have two or fewer IT staff, often reporting to a non-technical manager. This complement may not have the time, knowledge or experience to deliver the IT strategic, technical guidance and operational oversight that all modern businesses...
Most businesses make poor decisions when it comes to IT spending. This is the first article in a series exploring common mistakes that lead to wasteful spending and missed opportunities. This first article focuses on the many IT projects completed each year that are doomed to fail from the outset. The second article asks have...
There are a lot of IT leadership roles out there, and the distinction can get quite murky for leaders who are looking to include IT at the executive table or dabbling into their first major IT initiative. As time goes on technology titles continue to proliferate including: IT Manager, IT Director, VP of IT, CIO, CTO,...
Microsoft 365 Why Now and How the Pandemic has Changed How Organizations Communicate No area of IT changed as much or as swiftly as a result of COVID-19, as telephony. One moment we were living in a world of PRIs (Primary Rate Interface), PBXs (Private Branch Exhange), desktop phones, conference room systems with speaker phones,...
Why Now for SharePoint Intranet Business leaders and staff continue to run into issues with managing a more distributed workforce than ever before while managing more uncertainties and volume of information ever before. SharePoint is a proven technology platform to help people to streamline access to information and create efficiencies in communication without incurring excess...
What is Virtual IT Leadership? The rise of Cloud services has created a democratization of IT services. Now, anyone with a credit card can deploy business software in a matter of minutes, without having to know anything about IT infrastructure, security or data. This has led a lot of companies to dispense with having...