Modern technology can be utilized to help optimize and elevate just about any of your business’ processes, including your sales processes. Listed below are a few examples of how your sales team could (and really should) be using tech to their advantage.
Having an efficient and reliable point of sale (POS) system is essential for any retail or hospitality establishment. A robust POS system provides numerous benefits that can streamline the operations of the business and enhance customer and worker experiences. Listed below are some of the main benefits of integrating a robust POS system in your business.
In order for a business to stay competitive, they need to efficiently meet demand. Alas, this is easier said than done and there are potential problems at every level that have to be accounted for one way or another. The best way to go about this is proactively. That means, risk mitigation. This month, we touch on how technology can be used to successfully reduce risk.
For a business to be successful, you need to stay on point. From managing projects to enhancing communication and automating tasks, technology has become an indispensable asset for businesses of all sizes. Listed below is a look at some of the best tools to help a business be the best business it can be.
With the release of the 2023 edition of their annual Work Trend Index report, dedicated to exploring the topic of Will AI Fix Work?, Microsoft took a deep dive into the impact that artificial intelligence will have on the workplace in the future. This report ultimately resulted in three major conclusions, which we felt we should help amplify and contextualize.
These days you can’t afford not to have some portion of your business’ budget set aside for cybersecurity. The question is, how much do you need, and what should you be spending it on first? Let’s take a few moments to dig a little deeper into this question and examine a few cybersecurity protections you should establish as your business’ baseline defenses.
It's not unusual for today's businesses to turn more and more often to “green” technologies, partially due to the reduced environmental impacts that come with their use, and partially due to the operational advantages that many of these technologies also bring. Listed below are some of the options that even smaller businesses can embrace that bring these kinds of mutual benefits.
It’s undeniable that software makes a business run. You need applications that support everything that you do, including managing schedules, time, and payroll, producing the work, and selling it to others. For this reason, software is an integral part of doing business.
A digital transformation can revolutionize the way a business operates. One of the technologies that make up for an across-the-board transformation is the use of digital storage in lieu of physical paper-based storage of data. Listed below are some considerations that go into going paperless, and how it can be a benefit for your company.
Television has come a long way since its inception, and modern entertainment is more accessible than it has ever been before. Technology has played a large part in the dissemination of this entertainment, so we thought we’d take a look at how the cloud has contributed to making television the cornerstone of leisure that it is today.
We spend a lot of time working with the technology that businesses depend on, including the laptop workstations utilized by just about everyone in many modern organizations. As such, listed below are some of our insights so that you know what qualities you should look for when you’re ready to acquire some additional devices for your organization.
Doing more with less is one of the major advantages of utilizing technology for business and there are plenty of different parts of a business that it can help address. Listed below are some ways the SMB can advance their business with the use of technology.
If you are like many businesses, you use a lot of services from other companies to try and get all the business computing you need, without having to buy new servers and pay company IT administrators to look after them. This process is understandable, but are you really saving money by doing it? Listed below is a look at the myriad of services that businesses use and if it is, as advertised, saving them money.
Technology can be expensive to buy and maintain, but it can get a whole lot more expensive if you aren’t cognizant of how your IT dollars are being spent. Long ago are the days when companies could get their technology for a song and it would work for years at a time. Modern business technology has to build a more efficient workplace, as capital is harder to come by today than it has been for quite some time. Listed below are three ways you could be wasting your technology budget and what you can do to ward against it.
The IoT (the Internet of Things) is a fascinating technology, as it exemplifies just how much can be accomplished when Internet connectivity is used to augment the capabilities of otherwise “dumb” devices. Alas, as fascinating as it is, the IoT is also infamous for its security issues, a reputation that attackers have been perpetuating as these devices grow more common.
When your technology gets older it has a tendency to become less effective. This can be a major roadblock to organizational productivity and have devastating effects on your business. These include major downtime events and overwhelming inefficiency. Listed below is a look at some ways that you know that it’s time to focus on reinvestment.
Every year we take a look at the most interesting new smartphones that are being released. Over the past few years, fewer companies are making smartphones and throughout the whole industry, innovation has seemed to slow. Whether this is a result of rigid market dynamics, supply shortages, or the extraordinary costs it takes to manufacture and source components, it has taken some of the largest technology companies in the world, such as Amazon, LG, and HTC, out of the market and presented limited opportunities for other global technology leaders such as Microsoft, Sony, and Nokia.
Every office has that one employee that doesn’t seem to care that they are working in a room with other people. You know the type: They have day-old food on their desk, there are papers and other unnecessary items strewn about the desktop, things are sticky and smell strange. The funny part is they seem comfortable with that mess. Listed below are the benefits of keeping your workspace clean.
2018 included many rumors regarding foldable screens on mobile devices, but no manufacturer has created an OLED display flexible enough to fold in half… until now. In fact, there are numerous manufacturers out there that have committed themselves to producing foldable screens and devices in 2019.
Sustainability is a hot topic these days, from how we conduct ourselves in our personal lives to how businesses go about their respective business. If this is something that you want to promote in your business, we figured that the day before Earth Day was as good a day as any to share some of the ways you can do so.
