Our blog last week covered how patience is an important part of the most successful and productive employeesā arsenal. This week, we want to cover how you can help your employees be more patient. If you know someone in your office who could take things down a notch, this is just the blog for you with four suggestions that might do the trick.
All jobs have aspects of them that are simply dull or unengaging. After all, nothing can be exciting all the time. This week we wanted to focus on these rote tasks and what you can do to make them less of an impact on your time and job fulfillment. Turns out, the key to solving this issue stems from technology, specifically the ability to automate said tasks.
How many of your employees do you think hold a second job? This isnāt a particularly outlandish concept, but one thing that has come about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its surge of remote work is that some employees hold two jobs at the same time, and not in the way that you might expect.
No matter how big your business is, youāll always have technology expenses. Itās just a fact of the current workplace, and your profits will be inexorably tied to how well your IT works for you. Furthermore, the more IT costs rise, the more impact small and medium-sized businesses will feel from them. Today, we wanted to address this issue and how you can minimize the frustrations that stem from seemingly uncontrollable technology costs.
Letās begin by making one thing abundantly clearāall businesses and industries could potentially be targeted by ransomware, regardless of their size or target audience. However, as of late, some industries have been targeted more and more. Letās examine some of the commonly targeted industries that ransomware is frequently waged against.
Let me ask you a question: is there anything in your office that doesnāt rely on technology in some way, shape, or form (and no, the old coffeepot that makes the perfect cup doesnāt count)? Increasingly, the answer to that question is āno.ā Letās review how much the average business nowadays relies on IT to really reinforce how ubiquitous technology has become.
Every expense that your business takes on needs consideration. When you are looking to keep your business productive, you need to focus on keeping downtime to a minimum. In order to do that you need to have tools that donāt take a lot of work-time maintenance and have professional perspectives available that can help keep operations running when issues with your businessā technology do happen.
When all is said and done, being a manager is a far different experience than being an employee. So, when you promote one of your team members to this positionāor perhaps youāve recently been promoted to management yourselfāit is important that a few practices are incorporated into their new workflow. Letās go over these practices, and how the right IT can help.
Technology enables some amazing things for businesses, but it can influence the way you both look at operations and the way your business functions. Not all businesses have the capital to make these large technology investments. You are far from optionless, though; today we want to discuss some of the better investments you can make in your technology infrastructure, in particular ones that wonāt drain your budget.
In many places, businesses have been operating in a manner that is closer to ābusiness as usualā than āpandemic-alteredā. This doesnāt mean the pandemic is over, but a lot of businesses are now able to make decisions as they were before the pandemic. This is a good thing, but there is one aspect of business that doesnāt seem to be normalizing: the supply chain. Letās take a look at why supply chain issues persist and what you can do about them.
If you have tried to procure hardware or products over the past couple years, chances are you have noticed that it is harder to find them than usual. This is particularly the case for any companies that have dealings with computing hardware, as the price has been hiked considerably on even the most basic of components. What has triggered this dramatic change in the technology supply chain, and what can be done about it?
Healthcare is an industry thatāquite understandablyāoperates under very high pressure for a significant share of the time. As a result, it is only natural to conclude that a technology that could potentially make the lives of healthcare providers and administrators easier in numerous ways shows some promise. That technology is artificial intelligence.
Letās go over a few of the many ways that AI has been proposed (if not implemented already) as a solution to some of healthcareās more challenging stresses.
Sales. HR. Customer Service. IT. Accounting. Management. These different business departments have (for the most part) been categorized and compartmentalized for decades, cooperating to some extent but largely operating independently of one another. The question is, will this remain to be the case, with so many people now working remotely and communicating with their teammates as needed? Letās try to make a few predictions as to the future of the departments we are all so familiar with.
While we certainly have a lot to say about the benefits of the right IT solutions, even we can acknowledge that there is a point of diminishing returns. So, how much technology is too much technology, specifically in terms of the software your team relies on? Letās explore some of the warning signs.
With businesses relying so much on technology to accomplish just about everything, IT undoubtedly has an important role to play. It makes sense that you would want your businessā IT to deliver as much value as possible. To accomplish this, we wanted to go over three IT-centric processes that are primed to help you do so.
For most of the past years small business owners have been raked over the coals as dealing with sudden economic and political shifts isnāt often great on the budget. In fact, many businesses havenāt made it this far. If yours has, you are almost certainly looking for value in every business investment that you make. There are few investments that you can make for your business that carry more value than managed IT services. Today, weāll tell you how.
Seeing as technology is a critical component of most business processes nowadays, it is effectively guaranteed that it will benefit your operations to abide by a few particular best practices. Letās review these practices now so you can move forward and use your technology to its highest capabilities.