IT — is it a bug or a feature? An inescapable line item, or a precisely-calibrated business driver? As an entrepreneur, you’re likely familiar with the role IT operations play in keeping both the day-to-day and long-term health of your company in tip-top shape. However, when an acquisition takes place, it’s critical to take the opportunity to shift from simply … Read More
Building Flexible IT Foundations for Post-Acquisition Agility and Growth
So you’ve been acquired… or are about to be. Or maybe you’ve been divested and spun off. Whatever the nature of your specific corporate transaction, you’re transitioning from one company to a (kinda?) completely new one. There are bottom-line pressures, growth targets, all the stuff you’ve come to expect in any M&A deal… but where does your tech stack come … Read More
Tech Due Diligence for Private Equity Acquisitions
Private equity buyers evaluate dozens… maybe hundreds… of different data points in the due diligence process for acquiring a new company. Financials, market forces, competitive landscape, key staff, leadership team… the list goes on. But one of the things you simply cannot ignore — regardless of whether you’re a PE buyer or just purchasing a company yourself — is tech … Read More
Rising Above The Rubble: Taking a Hard Look at Business Continuity
If business continuity and disaster recovery were people, they’d be those slightly annoying relatives always pestering you to be “better safe than sorry.” While you may get tired of hearing the same message over and over again, they are unfortunately prophetic when a disaster — sayyyy, like a data breach — decides to pay an unsolicited visit. Business continuity is … Read More
How to offset tax liabilities through shrewd IT investment
As we rapidly approach Q4 (or possibly have just entered Q4 depending on when you read this), one of the foremost concerns on many small and medium-sized business owners’ minds is their fiscal year tax liabilities. No one loves paying the tax man — obviously — but if you think ahead and plan shrewdly, you can invest in critical areas … Read More
Are you truly ready for a phased return to the office? Or the new hybrid normal?
I think many of us who had the privilege of being able to work from home during this pandemic have gone through waves of a love/hate relationship with WFH. At first, we hated it because it was such a stark departure from our normal lives, and many of the collaboration tools and office etiquette wasn’t ready for a fully remote … Read More
Should your company increase its marketing budget amid COVID-19?
The business landscape is challenging, to say the least. For some sectors, dire is the more apt descriptor. But regardless of sector, businesses the nation over are hurting. When consumer confidence and spending decline, so too do sales and profitability for all but the most insulated sectors. When hard times befall American businesses, belt tightening becomes the name of the … Read More
Has CoVid proven asynchronous video messaging is enterprise ready?
CoVid-19 has upended, well, pretty much everything. There’s a decade’s worth of reading on all the ways it has impacted our lives, both large and small; there will be more to come. That said, not everything it has revealed or impacted is necessarily bad — those favoring flexible working arrangements now have ample evidence it really can be done at … Read More
Why IT stability is the mother of productivity (and how to get it)
Labor productivity is higher than it has ever been before. This is great news for business owners as well as for retail investors, because it means the American economy is growing overall. Many things contribute to these productivity gains, from better workplace management and collaboration tools to the overarching influx of technology that simplifies tasks, automates repetition, and massively increases … Read More
Intel Announces Major Security Breach
You’ve probably seen or heard about the massive security vulnerability Intel announced last week. This recent acknowledgement has the potential to dwarf the WannaCry attacks from 2017 when you consider the combined impact of attacks and performance loss. Intel Security Breach The vulnerability is at the heart of the processor architecture. This issue applies to the last 20+ years of processors … Read More
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