By Michael C. Fillios Author, Tech Debt 2.0®: How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line. The impact of Covid-19 has had unprecedented implications on a global scale in both our personal and professional lives. Much of which today is blurred as we all adapt to changing behaviors such […]
Does your small or mid-size business have the endurance and discipline to create long-lasting value for your customers and stakeholders? Are your technology investments solely focused on cost reduction and efficiency? Do any of the following statements resonate with you? IT initiatives and the business are often misaligned because what the business values is not […]
SMBs face many, if not more challenges than enterprise size businesses and have less resources to take on these challenges. As SMBs take greater advantage of technology to transform and grow their businesses they often incur another challenge that provides opportunity but is often fraught with peril. That challenge is the complex world of software […]
A major challenge for businesses today is human resource management. In other words, actually acquiring and retaining employees with the technical skills and ability needed to transform an organization and prepare it for a digital future isn’t happening. This is particularly challenging for small to medium sized businesses at a time when unemployment is the […]
Establishing a successful business today involves undertaking projects to introduce innovation and achieve competitive advantage and differentiation. The Standish Group, a primary research advisory group reports that less than a third of IT projects were completed on time and on budget last year. For SMBs delivering successful projects is a major challenge. Wrike, the collaborative […]
Business owners are hearing a lot today about the benefits that high-end data analysis and data mining hold for their companies. That might be true, but those benefits depend entirely on the quality of data that the business has collected. Unfortunately, this data is often not suitable to deliver those benefits. Data preparation is a […]
The rapid evolution of emerging technologies and the impact this has had on business has propelled technology executives into the C suite across most industry sectors. This has generated much discussion and activity around the new responsibilities and skill sets technology executives must accept and master. A great deal has been written to advise and […]
In today’s world of rapidly advancing technology, cyber advisory is the last thing your SMB wants to think about. But in reality, that’s not ideal. Many small and mid-size businesses don’t have systems in place if their business is under a cyber attack. In fact, one of our previous blog posts addresses this issue. Nearly […]
While on vacation in South Carolina visiting family and friends in Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head last week, I decided to pack my clubs and enjoy a few rounds of golf. Our first stop was Myrtle Beach to visit my in-laws and play golf with my father-in-law, Garry, who is 80, and Griffin, my 17-year-old […]
Does your small or mid-size business need an IT Fitness Program? To help determine the answer, consider the following: Have you built the muscle to protect and defend against cyber threats? Do you have the agility to meet changing customer needs? Are you lean enough to optimize value from your technology investments? A question I […]