What are some of the challenges to consider? There are good reasons and bad reasons to outsource your IT. Two of the bad reasons are: You want to reduce costs (unless your current environment has been completely mismanaged). The days of seeing IT as a cost center are...
To support businesses at this time, Google has announced new capabilities for its video meeting software, Google Meet. Meet will now support up to 150 concurrent users and allow recordings of meetings to be stored to your corporate Drive directory for people to review...
Christmas has become a time for personal IT trials. Just before a Christmas flight in 2017, my laptop's motherboard failed. Granted, it was a 5 year old machine and had given me a good life; but it was still frustrating. The bright spot was that I had "eaten my own...
Telecommuting is growing across North America. Benefits include lower cost for office space and better staff retention. However, many managers and employers remain skeptical of its value. A study by Glenn Dutcher and Krista Saral from the University of...
Inglewood is an urban neighbourhood in northwest Edmonton, Canada. Its Community League has a few part time employees and is managed by a volunteer board. In addition to advocating for neighbourhood issues with the city's administration, it rents out its community...
No one is just born to be a manager. In most organizations, it is the people who excel at their jobs that are usually given the chance to be made managers. However, this approach has hidden challenges. People who have been subject-matter experts about a particular...
Maybe you've never heard of VoIP or if you have, your eyes glossed over and you turned your head the other way. Simply put VoIP is a telephone service. It rings phones and connects people. But unlike the phone service offered by your public telephone company: the...
Elegance: The quality of being pleasingly ingenious and simple; neatness —Oxford Dictionary Many businesses succeed by chasing after the next success. They grow organically—trying to follow markets and customer needs, branching into new lines of business, and...
I suggest the sweet spot for any business is not to try to eat its competitor’s lunch today; it is to get an extra portion of its competitor’s lunch tomorrow. By scanning our value net for risks and opportunities, we can plot a trajectory to get there first.
I’ve talked to a lot of managers over the years who lament at the “skills-gap.” They claim they’re just not able to find the qualified candidates they need to fill their jobs.