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  • Prevention Is Better Than Cure

    • 1st September 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    Fast response times are important when it comes to your business IT support. You want reassurance that if a disaster should strike, your support partner has your back and will get you up and running again in no time. However. Too many IT support providers are spending most of their time reacting to issues, and not enough time preventing them.

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  • 10 Apps You Didn’t Know You Had in Microsoft 365

    • 1st August 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Growth, Office 365, Professional Services, Security, Strategy, Technology
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    Guess how many hours you and your team are wasting each week? We don’t mean your team taking 20 minutes to make a cup of coffee. How many hours are your people wasting every week inputting the same information across different apps and software? Or going back and forth trying to plan meetings at a time that suits everyone?

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  • You’ve Got a Business Plan. Do You Have an IT Strategy?

    • 15th July 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Strategy
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    It’s safe to assume that your business has some form of plan. Sure, it may have changed a little over the last 18 months, but it’s there, and you’re aware of its existence. What about your IT infrastructure? Is there a plan behind that? A strategy, even? Whether you’re running a multi-location empire with hundreds

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  • The Biggest Security Threat To Your Business Is On Your Payroll

    • 5th July 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Growth, Professional Services, Security, Strategy, Technology
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    One of your staff is going to put your business’s data into the hands of a criminal. They won’t mean to do it. But at some point someone will accidentally click on a bad link and grant hackers access to your systems. That’s known as insider negligence.

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  • How to Distinguish an IT Support Provider From an IT Support Partner

    • 12th May 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Security, Strategy
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    Just like every other business on the planet, yours relies heavily on IT – even if your computer or smartphone seemingly plays a minor role in your day. Imagine, just for a moment, if that device stopped working. Now, imagine if that happened right when you were about to press ‘send’ on an important contract,

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  • The 5 Step Plan to Prepare and Protect Your Financial Planning and Wealth Management Firm From Cyber Crime

    • 4th May 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Professional Services, ransomware, Security, Strategy, Technology
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    You’re regulated by the FCA. The nature of your business means that you’ll retain very sensitive client data. Therefore, the onus falls on you not to just protect your own critical data, but the financial and personal records of your customers, too

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  • Is Your IT Provider Communicating Well? Or is it Time to CTRL + ALT + Delete?

    • 18th March 2021
    • Posted by: Phil Aston
    • Category: Business, Strategy
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    Successful businesses rely on great communication throughout the organisation. It’s how you foster relationships with customers, build great teams, and draw more people towards your brand. Why is it, then, that you’ve not heard from your IT provider for the last three months? Come to think of it, the last time you heard from them

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  • Is OneDrive or Dropbox Better for Your Business

    • 4th March 2021
    • Posted by: Phil Aston
    • Category: Business, Strategy, Technology
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    As the ability to store files online has become more secure and affordable, our reliance on traditional hard drives has reduced. This has led to more cost-effective hardware purchases and storage which grows effortlessly with your requirements. Cloud storage also provides significant benefits for productivity, thanks to seamless integration with the apps we rely on

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  • Is it better to replace or repair?

    • 27th February 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    How do you know when the time has come to buy new devices? We have put together a handy guide so you can consider whether your business should repair or replace by illustrating seven signs that you need a new computer.

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  • Is your current IT service provider a true partner, or just another supplier?

    • 2nd February 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    When lockdown hit last year, many businesses realised that their IT support provider was simply another supplier. They provided a service in return for a fee. But there was no real care or concern for the IT infrastructure. There was no partnership.

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