The Stress-Free IT Takeover With Compex IT
- 3rd March 2023
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Business, Strategy, Technology
No CommentsChanging your IT provider can be quite a daunting decision to make. Especially if you, like most business owners and managers, just want IT to work, and don’t want to get involved in all the technical stuff. To ease your uncertainty around moving IT service providers we’ve created our Hassle Free IT Takeover process. In
Why One-off Ad-hoc IT Work Isn’t For Us
- 30th August 2022
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
The question “why don’t you guys perform one-off ad-hoc work?” is one that we are asked very often. There is one simple reason: we’re able to help our clients more efficiently and diligently when we have stable, long-term relationships with them. It gives us the opportunity to have a complete understanding of the client’s needs
How to Get the Perfect Video Call Setup, Whatever Your Budget
- 14th July 2022
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
We’ve written a new guide about digital IT transformations. It’s an overview of what it actually means to digitally transform your business (with some case studies), and the basics you need to consider before you make any big decisions.
The Business Owner’s Briefing: Reduce the Burden on Your Brain
- 24th May 2022
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Business, Growth, Professional Services, Strategy, Technology
there are loads of tools available to you right now that can help free up your time, reduce interruptions and give you better focus. And many of them are already included with your Microsoft 365 subscription. We’ve written a business owner’s briefing to help you decide which ones could work for you.
The Legal Sector: The Latest Updates in Cyber Security
- 16th May 2022
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Legal, Professional Services, ransomware, Security, Strategy
Mitigation against cyber crime, i.e. effective cyber security practices, is something that you need to be constantly vigilant about. This is especially true of certain sectors given the type and volume of personal data they manage: the legal sector is one of these. A recent review conducted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) explored how
What Netflix and Lego did. But Kodak didn’t
- 5th April 2022
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Strategy, Technology
We’ve written a new guide about digital IT transformations. It’s an overview of what it actually means to digitally transform your business (with some case studies), and the basics you need to consider before you make any big decisions.
How to ensure your business’s spend on IT is an investment, and never an expense
- 27th February 2022
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Strategy, Technology
In the years we’ve been looking after businesses round here, we’ve noticed there are two different ways that owners and managers buy IT and technology. Some see it as an expense. Others see it as an investment
How To Keep Your Financial Management Firm’s Data Ultra-Safe During the Work From Home Revolution
- 18th January 2022
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Strategy, Technology
The working from home model has been readily and necessarily embraced by the financial services community and proven to have some real benefits. More efficient client engagement and people are happier and more motivated with a better work/life balance. However, this new way of working creates a new data security headache. You need to consider what would happen if a hacker was able to get into one of your team’s home network.
The 2 Technology Areas You Should Focus on in 2022
- 21st December 2021
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
The two technology areas we are helping our clients focus on in 2022 are Defend and Invest. Defend is about protecting your firm from cyber criminals. The amount of cyber-crime is constantly increasing, to levels never seen before. Invest is about making sure technology is powering your firm forward, not holding it back. We’ve written a new guide to look at both these areas in detail.
IT Security: What Lockdown Has Taught Us
- 5th December 2021
- Posted by: Mark Dodds
- Category: ransomware, Security, Strategy, Technology
Few businesses were ready to close their office doors for an indefinite amount of time and send all their staff home during 2020. Sure, for some companies, this may have been a seamless transition, but for others it was a huge challenge. However, working from home doesn’t mean that the same level of productivity, creativity,