What is 23 NYCRR 500? It’s a fairly new set of cybersecurity standards (15 to be exact) designed to help businesses establish policies & standard operating procedures that will: • identify, assess, and detect cyber risks; • put defensive mechanisms in place to protect against threats; and • react... read more →
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Mar 14
System outages bring business to a screeching halt. But how do you determine the real cost of an outage at your organization? You'd be surprised at all the factors involved. Everything in your business is connected. Check out the guide below to learn how cost is calculated. Then, grab some... read more →
Jan 31
You? A visionary? Maybe you find it difficult to think of yourself as a visionary. It’s a term reserved for innovators and people with household names, and it’s a label that sounds extremely hard to live up to. But visionary thinking – or principles of it - can be applied... read more →
Jan 25
If you’re a small or medium-sized business, chances are you run on a lean budget. You don’t have a giant creative team at your disposal. Maybe you’re outsourcing the marketing portion of the business, paying for a few professionally designed graphics, brochures and ads that will carry you through the year.... read more →
Jan 18
About 10 years ago (that’s a long time), the book, “A Complaint is a Gift” made its debut in the business world. The book rests on the foundation that the way we look at things matters, which, at the time, felt like revolutionary thinking. Back then, the business world was... read more →
Jan 16
Improving internal communications doesn’t mean everyone in the office should take an e-course on business writing. Grammar fanatics everywhere agree: it would be great if it were that simple. To see real impact in 2018, reach beyond comma usage & sentence structure to uncover gaps where employee’s efforts are duplicate... read more →
Jan 12
Raise your hand if you’re busy all day at work. We thought so. A disclaimer before you keep reading: you won’t hear any complaints about long to-do lists from us. Lots to do equals lots to be grateful for. It means you’re engaged (and probably energized) all day long. You’re... read more →
Jan 09
Cyber-Security was a regular on newsreels in 2017. We had WannaCry, GlobeImposter, Petya, Not Petya... and those are just some that come to mind, thanks to particularly memorable names. Data breaches plagued businesses large and small, in every industry - from Equifax to Checkers. We watched endless speculation that it... read more →
Jan 03
Set business goals- and ask the team how they can help. We already know this, but... Most business leaders know it’s important to set goals, and we feel like goal-setting gurus when we set ‘SMART’ ones. The popular SMART system transforms vague statements like “I want to finish this project”... read more →
Jan 02
Update your mission statement, org charts & job-descriptions. What’s the point? When’s the last time you really looked at your mission statement? Most businesses create one at the beginning, as part of a business plan. And most employees on the payroll can’t recall it. The point is, if you’ve been... read more →
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