Whether it’s the cool craft brew pub on the corner or the hottest new app, it’s clear that Americans love the excitement, risk, and reward of creating the next big thing in a small package. What also is clear: the US economy loves small and medium-sized businesses because their innovations propel economic resilience, allow us […]

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 […]