IT Should Be Complex, Not Complicated
Have you ever asked an IT person about an issue you’re having, only to be bombarded by seemingly random acronyms and looping, laborious caveats? Have you ever, while being bombarded with said acronyms had the thought: surely things can’t be that complicated. We’re tricked into blaming ourselves for not understanding or making sense of it. […]
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The Cost Of Cutting IT Costs
We’re strange creatures, aren’t we? However rational we try to be, we make all sorts of illogical financial decisions. And while you might be nodding your head, thinking of the ‘mental accounting’ you do on a night out, it’s worth pointing that we’re not much better in business mode. Sure, we have stricter financial rules […]
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What Does Digital Transformation Really Mean?
Digital transformation has become something of a buzz phrase in the business world. Everybody seems to be in the middle of one. And while there is good reason for this sometimes frantic enthusiasm, anytime a phrase becomes so heavily leaned upon at businesses conferences and in ‘thought leadership’ articles, it’s worth treating it with a […]
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The Case For Working Remotely (And How To Make It Work!)
According to one report, 53% of employees in the UK feel their employers aren’t doing enough to enable remote working. Now, there are plenty of good reasons why this might be the case. From the difficulty of creating a ‘team mentality’ from differing locations to the slightly more gristly issue of whether they’ll actually get […]
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Common IT Concerns For SMEs
Technology appears to cause a unique amount of headaches. While we all pay lip service to the transformative effect and powerful potential IT had and has, it’s hard not to get the sense an awful lot of business leaders secretly wish it’d never happened. This counts double for SMEs, whose relative lack of financial firepower […]
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What They Won’t Tell You About Tech
There is no point denying it: businesses require IT to keep up. Whether it is saving time and effort or having access to cutting-edge resources, being capable of utilising tech is non-negotiable for a modern company. And beyond that, large chunks of our personal lives and even international infrastructure rely on inscrutably complex digital procedures. […]
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Alignment Is Everything In IT
Every business is a bit like an organism. Regardless of the sector and market, a business needs to function in a healthy, unified way in order to have any hope at success. That means each part of the business needs to talk to the others and share a common understanding of the values and vision […]
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The Beauty Of Thinking Small In IT
Reconsidering the commonsense behind big IT departments and bringing the drawbacks to scaling up into light…
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Five Reasons To Outsource Your IT
As more time is spent dealing with digital, IT support is increasingly in-house. But is that really efficient?
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