We can’t avoid spending money on IT. We can, however, avoid spending money on IT that isn’t properly supporting and advancing our business objectives. Here are the top 3 signs that you aren’t getting the best value out of your IT spend.
I recently spoke with Michael Pryor, one of the founders of Trello, about what it takes to keep a widely dispersed workforce effective, productive, and engaged. If you don’t know about Trello yet (despite there being 25 million registered users), it’s a collaboration tool that uses moveable tiles (“cards”) much
As originally published in the ALA’s Legal Management Magazine in November 2017 Virtual Offices: Is It Time for Your Firm to Say Goodbye to Office Space? For most small- to midsized law firms, the two largest expenses are employees and rent. In today’s age of economic uncertainty, many firms are
We’ve been hearing about Equifax ad nauseam. We’ve learned that the Yahoo hack was even worse than we had thought, and that all 3 billion accounts were compromised in their 2013 breach. If I asked you to, I’m sure you could rattle off at least half a dozen other big-name
If I were to ask you what your IT team actually does for your business, what would you say? Over the past 3 decades I’ve watched my industry slowly split itself into 3 distinct categories, all of which fall under the “IT support” umbrella. While the split has been evident
You did it. You decided that maintaining your company’s technology was not one of your core competencies, and that rather than fussing with it internally like you have been, you’re going to outsource that responsibility to another company.
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