Your network is an imperative part of your business, insofar as it is quite literally what powers your operations and enables you to work productively… at least, most of the time. Alas, there is always the risk of a network bottleneck, or a limited capacity for data to move due to a lack of available bandwidth. So, how can these bottlenecks be avoided?
With technology serving such an indispensable role in modern business the looming threat of disaster is one that always needs to be considered. With so many consequences on the line, it’s imperative that your business is prepared to deal with these disasters effectively and efficiently. Listed below are some tips for properly preparing for your potential disaster recovery needs.
Technology is imperative for many reasons, chief among them your business’ continued efficiency and productivity. The problem with technology, though, is that it will never last forever, and you’ll have to replace it sooner or later. Fortunately, you can delay those costs considerably by implementing a proactive technology management plan, effectively keeping the same technology running longer.
As the boss, you’re in a position to offload many of your business’ responsibilities to your employees. That’s more or less why you have employees in the first place. That being said, there’s more than one way that you can delegate tasks, depending on your personal style of management and the work style of each of your employees.
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been discussing procrastination as a concept and how it tends to manifest. To wrap up our discussion, we wanted to share a few ways that you might be able to greatly reduce your and your team’s tendencies to procrastinate so that more can be accomplished.
We’ve been examining the concept of procrastination in recent weeks - why we do it and how it often manifests itself in business processes. For our final few parts, we’ll be focusing on how you can stop procrastinating by utilizing both quicker, short-term tactics and long-term, sustained changes. Listed below are some short-term tactics.
We recently started to explore the concept of procrastination as a means of understanding it better, and potentially, getting better at not doing it. Last time, we touched on a few ways that procrastination can potentially manifest, so it only made sense to us that we would continue pulling that thread and try to help you identify how you tend to procrastinate more specifically.
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” It’s good advice, as well as some of the easiest and most tempting advice to ignore. Procrastination is one of those things that we all assume we understand, but we wanted to take a bit of time to explore it in greater detail…and figure out how we can all work to resist it.
Your business depends on its bandwidth and its Internet connection to remain productive, part of which means ensuring that you have a reliable and stable wireless connection. How can you set up your network so that it is optimal and efficient?
Back in 1995, the Association of Records Managers and Administrators were in the midst of campaigning for the renewal of the Paperwork Reduction Act. As a part of their efforts, they created National Records and Information Management Day. It has since expanded into a week, and then into an entire month, for businesses around the world to consider their record-keeping practices.
Critical thinking skills are universally helpful to have, especially in the business setting, and especially when it comes to your business’ information technology management. Listed below are ways these skills benefit your business, and how you can work to foster them.
Most people are capable of productivity, but sometimes it can come a bit harder for some than for others. If you find your staff have difficulty with consistency and productivity, we aren’t here to tell you methods for enhancing their productivity; rather, we want to introduce a concept that is often overlooked when trying to get the most out of your team, and is a trait often found in the most productive people. That trait is patience.
Remote work remains a fundamental approach to workplace operations these days. While this has led to great opportunities, remote work adds a new level of complexity to managing your employees. Listed below are a few practices that can help make this management simpler and more effective.
We’re all familiar with the old, cliched joke where someone needs to give their technology a good whack in order for it to work right—and by some miracle, it works. The thing is, it isn’t a miracle, and can sometimes be effective. However, this is not a strategy that we would recommend.
The workspace is consistently changing these days, with remote work being commonplace, along with resignations in the face of a return to the office becoming more of a regular occurrence. Employees want more control over their work schedule so they can balance their personal responsibilities with their professional. A shorter workweek might be the key to making this happen.
It doesn’t matter where your business is located; whether it’s a tornado that comes through your city, a structural fire that renders your office uninhabitable, or a wild snowstorm that brings down power lines or grinds travel to a halt, you’ll want to be ready for it all. Listed below are the types of solutions your organization can implement to ensure that no disaster, be it natural or artificial, like a cyberattack, puts a stop to your operations.
Wireless security has become a cornerstone of working while on the go thanks to the availability of so many wireless networks to connect to. Listed below is a list of best practices to help ensure your wireless networks, and the devices connecting to them, are as secure as possible.
Many companies were very suddenly introduced to the capabilities of modern collaboration tools, as… circumstances forced them to either go remote or cease operations for an unknown amount of time. That being said, while collaboration tools were suddenly a requisite for work, could these tools now be responsible for isolating your team members from one another?
March 31st is the official World Backup Day, a day intended to remind us all of the importance of having backups for the sake of data continuity. While this kind of day can be a valuable reminder of an imperative best practice, we contend that your awareness of your backup, as well as the maintenance that goes with it, should not be limited to a single day.
Phishing is one of those threats that has been around for a while, and as time passes by, only become more difficult to identify. Some businesses can’t tell the difference between phishing scams and actual emails. Listed below are steps your organization can take toward properly identifying and responding to phishing emails.
