Posts Tagged ‘professionals’
IT professionals–tell us when you finish
Amazingly enough, this is one of the most common complaints I hear about IT professionals: “I asked them to do such and such, and I waited a long time, and never heard from them. I was more and more frustrated every day! I finally asked them and they said they had completed the task a long time ago. Why in the heck couldn’t they have told me it was fixed?”
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A data backup strategy for your company
Backup problems continue to plague businesses. One of the biggest problems happens when you attempt to restore and find out your backup is no good. For the past few years, business continuity devices have emerged to ease the pain of backups.
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Follow these 7 steps when you buy a new computer
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Executives often want to know what steps to take when they purchase a new computer.
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Just what is cloud computing?
Executives frequently ask me: What does it mean to be computing in the cloud? While we techies have our own definitions for cloud computing, executives and owners tend to consider any programs that are not installed on the local computer to be “in the cloud.”
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Can you trust your IT professional’s answer?
I had the pleasure of performing an audit at a company recently where the lead IT professional was shocked to learn that his e-commerce system needed to be secure in order to keep credit card information secure as part of PCI-DSS compliance.
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Do IT and management skills coincide?
I recently spoke to a CEO who was incredibly frustrated with his IT professional, who is incapable of managing his IT assistant successfully. In fact, in these times when organizations are having difficulty recruiting qualified IT professionals, this CEO was considering firing this professional who is enthusiastic, knowledgeable, devoted, and highly skilled technically—even though he is not the best manager.
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If you accept credit cards-simplify PCI-DSS
If your organization accepts credit cards, you are required to comply with PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards). This can seem ominous, so here are some tips to help you. Continue reading ‘If you accept credit cards-simplify PCI-DSS’
Provide distractions to Gen Y at work?
If human multitasking is a fantasy, why would anyone give Generation Y employees access to distractions at work?
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Do you believe in human multitasking?
Can you, or your workers, really be productive doing more than one task at the same time? Checking e-mail while talking on the phone for instance?
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