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  • 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
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    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.

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  • What Netflix and Lego did. But Kodak didn’t

    • 5th April 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    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.

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  • 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
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    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

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  • 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
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    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.

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  • The 2 Technology Areas You Should Focus on in 2022

    • 21st December 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    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.

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  • IT Security: What Lockdown Has Taught Us

    • 5th December 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: ransomware, Security, Strategy, Technology
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    IT Security, What Lockdown Has Taught Us

    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,

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  • Are You Paying Your IT Support Partner Enough?

    • 28th November 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    I bet that’s a question you’ve never asked yourself before…But it’s important you do. Because in the world of technology, there’s a definite link between what you pay, and the quality of the service you receive. Picking an IT provider on price alone is a false economy. If you’re paying too little, you’re running one of four big risks. Find out what they are in our brand new guide.

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  • 3 Common Problems When Transitioning to Remote Working (And How to Avoid Them)

    • 28th September 2021
    • Posted by: Phil Aston
    • Category: Business, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    Remote work is here to stay and this means a big shift for many offices. We’ve helped our customers go through many transitions over last two years. But are you ready for your own transition to remote working if you haven’t done so already?       We recently sat down and thought about the most common problems

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  • 8 Tips for Protecting Mental Health Online

    • 15th September 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Technology
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    Tips For Protecting Mental Health Online

    With the internet being a regular part of 4.8 billion people’s daily lives, navigating it in a manner that protects your mental health is a challenge. With so much content flying past your eyes as you scroll through social feeds, it’s inevitable you’ll come across something that bothers you. However, by taking advantage of a

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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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