Is your business grappling with increased costs, decreased efficiency, or missed growth opportunities? Organizational friction might be the culprit. Organizational friction can appear in several different ways, including low employee morale, high turnover, or poor performance. When this starts to happen, it’s hard for businesses to implement the changes needed to make progress, innovate, and…
In today’s rapidly changing business climate, resilience has become a critical characteristic for businesses that want to not only survive, but thrive. The pandemic-induced recession, a challenging labor market, and rapid advancements in technology have revealed the importance of organizational resilience on business stability and success. If organizations want to remain strong in the face…
Attract and Retain Skilled Employees During a Digital Talent Crisis In today’s fast-paced digital world, organizations are facing a significant challenge: the digital talent crisis. The digital talent crisis refers to the shortage of skilled workers with the necessary technical expertise to fill critical roles. This shortage is impacting companies’ ability to innovate and stay…
Most companies today prepare some sort of financial budget. Budgets can be built at a very high level (Sales, cost of sales and expenses), or built-in detail (sales detail by type, expenses by department, capital spending, projects). Some companies also budget the Balance Sheet to be able to prepare budgeted cashflow statements. Company budget preparation…
Plant nursery leverages Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC for better visibility into finance and production, and to better serve customers.
Fear is the biggest blocker to organizational change. Whether we’re talking new policies, technologies, or strategies, change tends to be “fear-based,” regardless of what you stand to gain. While some fear is inevitable, it shouldn’t prevent you from moving forward. If it does, your business will fall to more agile competitors. And, let’s face it,…
Every 11 seconds, a new organization gets hit by ransomware. Any organization, regardless of size or industry, is at risk. A report by Cybersecurity Ventures found that ransomware attacks surged by 105% in 2021, costing $20 billion worldwide. The three most common ways ransomware spreads are ransomware emails, software vulnerabilities and server weakness exploits. Because…
During the July Microsoft Inspire conference for Microsoft partners, CEO Satya Nadella delivered the keynote address focusing on the theme of companies can “Do More with Less” when it comes to IT initiatives. Along those lines, Nadella emphasized five digital imperatives customers need to achieve: Nadella also underscored how these five imperatives go beyond digital…
Today’s businesses are up against an increasingly organized and sophisticated attacker ecosystem. For example, human-operated attacks exploit vulnerable services and network configuration weaknesses to deploy ransomware payloads, exfiltrate data, and steal credentials. And those threat actors move FAST. When there’s gaps in your security solution or you’ve got silos standing in the way of end-to-end…