Small-business IT strategy

Information technology integration with company processes has become essential to business success in the digital age. This is not easy for the largest organizations, never mind a small business with limited resources. We are here to help: Read news and tips that provide small organizations with IT/business strategies to help stretch limited IT resources for maximum gain.

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Small-business IT strategy News

December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18
Lottery.com eyeing blockchain for charity games to boost transparency

Online mobile lottery service Lottery.com wants to use blockchain as a service to bolster a new business initiative: expanding into games for charities. Read about the challenges and payoffs.
November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17
Free course targets candidates for network engineering jobs

NexGenT is new to the IT boot camp field, so it's promoting itself, offering up a course that helps people prepare for IT careers. The fee? A $5 charity donation.
July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17
Unpakt's platform business model offers a moving experience

Unpakt overcame an early chicken-and-egg challenge to create an online marketplace that let users view price quotes from multiple moving companies when planning a move.
July 28, 2017 28 Jul'17
No code platform: Verité manages big projects via Quick Base

Verité, a non-profit organization focusing on labor conditions in international supply chains, turned to a no code product to boost efficiency and manage complex projects.

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organizational goals

Organizational goals are strategic objectives that a company's management establishes to outline expected outcomes and guide employees' efforts. Continue Reading
load balancing

Load balancing is a technique used to distribute workloads uniformly across servers or other compute resources to optimize network efficiency, reliability and capacity. Continue Reading
Step-by-step guide to a blockchain implementation

If you're not experimenting with blockchain, you're behind the curve. Our step-by-step guide on implementing blockchain dissects the challenges, best practices and payoffs. Continue Reading

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MSPs: VCIOs fill tech leadership gap among SMB customers

IT services companies said providing vCIOs helps their small and midsize customers acquire business and technology guidance without having to hire a full-time employee. Continue Reading
The modern approach to choosing an ERP system

Today's ERP landscape offers more options than ever before. Here's a look at how two companies took a strategic approach to choosing the right software for their needs. Continue Reading
Run a hackathon event that pays off -- and draws women

IBM Watson Health's chief scientist explains how a hackathon event can pay dividends for a company, provided it's run right. Plus, advice on how to get more women to hackathons. Continue Reading

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6 ways CIOs can make valuation of data a business driver

Gartner believes data should be on every company's balance sheet. Here are six data valuation models on how CIOs can put a price tag on their data. Continue Reading
ITIL and ITSM best practices for process improvement

ITIL and ITSM best practices improve business processes by standardizing and optimizing the delivery of IT services. Learn more in this comprehensive guide for CIOs. Continue Reading
Benefits of ITSM: Use an ITSM portal as gateway to cloud services

Requiring users to access the cloud via an ITSM portal will reduce spending, explains Andy Sealock in part two of his tip on leveraging the benefits of ITSM in cloud services. Continue Reading

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What's the difference between SLO vs. SLA?

Often used interchangeably, the terms SLO and SLA are not the same. Find out the key attributes of each and why each is important for managing service providers. Continue Reading
ITSM in the cloud: Using ITSM best practices to optimize cloud usage

Cloud-based services can't be beat for their ease of use, but companies often experience some 'unhappy surprises' when the bill comes due, says Andy Sealock. ITSM in the cloud can help. Continue Reading
CIO uses master data management to speed digitalization

IMA Financial Group CIO Michelle Vercellino's effort to clean up, protect and govern the firm's data is an important step in the firm's quest for 'data intelligence.' Continue Reading

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