Leadership, Productivity, and IT Support

As you may know by now, a number of Microsoft applications and operating systems, including Windows 7 and Server 2008, will no longer be supported or patched after today, January 14, 2020. These operating systems are considered to be at end-of-life (EOL) operating systems. Over the past year, it..

Unfortunately, sluggish IT help desk services are not an uncommon occurrence. Running a service desk is not easy, and there are a number of issues that can easily cause the support team to get overwhelmed.

In the summer of 2014, California had a serious earthquake in Napa resulting in power outages and caused many businesses to come to a screeching halt. For companies without private cloud services, this was a problem, but what would it look like if they had access to their work remotely? First,..

Last year, I read Pat Lencioni’s book, The Advantage. The Advantage is my favorite thus far of the nine Lencioni books I’ve read. Here’s how it inspired me to refresh the way we handle corporate strategic planning.

Printers continue to be a serious cause for frustration. There is a reason the scene in Office Space, where they tear apart a printer in the field, still resonates with us. As other technology gets more sophisticated, printers have remained as frustrating and difficult to manage as ever.

When a company decides to change to their IT support, it is often for the same reasons. Typically it’s because IT issues are taking too long to resolve, users are experiencing repeat issues, and the current response and resolution rates are slow. While these are valid reasons for wanting to switch,..