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3 Ways Managed IT Benefits Your Bottom Line

3 Ways Managed IT Benefits Your Bottom Line

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 27, 2024
  • Business

Managed IT services are a great way for your business to save money, but what specifically do these types of services do to have such a profound impact on your budget? The impact stems from three primary causes: a reliable level of service, a proactive stance on maintenance and management, and access to professional technicians with decades of expertise. (more…)

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Is Shift Shock a Problem You Need to Solve?

Is Shift Shock a Problem You Need to Solve?

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 22, 2024
  • Business

Are you finding that some of your younger hires aren’t sticking around nearly as long as you’d prefer them to? There’s a good chance that these employees are experiencing a relatively recent phenomenon called “shift shock,” the latest workplace trend focusing on employee engagement and satisfaction. Let’s examine shift shock and how to avoid its impacts in your business. (more…)

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How Do You Deal with Opposition to Technological Change?

How Do You Deal with Opposition to Technological Change?

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • February 28, 2024
  • Business

If businesses want to stay competitive, they must implement new technology to keep up with other similar organizations in their respective industries. Unfortunately, the downside to implementing new technology is that your employees might not be so understanding and willing to adapt their workplace habits to accommodate your new solutions. How can you overcome this challenge? It all starts with...

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A Positive Company Culture is Worth Investing In (Especially When It Comes to Technology)

A Positive Company Culture is Worth Investing In (Especially When It Comes to Technology)

Of all the aspects that play a part in your business’ success, its company culture can often be overlooked as nothing more than a perk… something nice to offer the team, but ultimately unimportant. This is very much a misconception. Let’s discuss how valuable a positive company culture is, and how to develop one in your business. Don’t worry, we’ll...

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Making Good Technology Decisions Can Bring a Lot of Value

Making Good Technology Decisions Can Bring a Lot of Value

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • January 31, 2024
  • Business

When a business goes into action to improve itself, it typically goes into the process thinking that whatever changes it makes can significantly affect how it functions. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Today, we’ll discuss how professional consultants provide a perspective that can revolutionize how your business operates. (more…)

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You Don’t Need Always Need to Be Looking to the Future

You Don’t Need Always Need to Be Looking to the Future

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • January 24, 2024
  • Business

Some people say it’s never okay to be satisfied with your business. You should always search for improvement to make your business more valuable to your customers and society. But when is enough, enough? When can you settle in and grind it out without a constant eye toward the future? Today, we thought we’d talk about the fear of complacency...

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How Employee Burnout Contributes to Churn (Turnover)

How Employee Burnout Contributes to Churn (Turnover)

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • January 22, 2024
  • Business

You must make difficult decisions in any walk of life, especially in running a business. The most critical decisions will focus on policies that help you keep employees and ensure they are motivated. Today, we want to discuss some of the problems associated with employee churn, or turnover, and what you can do to combat it in today’s modern business...

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Promises of Remote Work are Being Broken… and It’s a Bad Idea

Promises of Remote Work are Being Broken… and It’s a Bad Idea

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • December 18, 2023
  • Business

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a few years since circumstances… “encouraged”... so many businesses to suddenly adopt work from home policies. As these circumstances have gradually normalized, many businesses have elected to keep these policies in place, either maintaining fully remote operations or shifting to hybrid operations. However, some notable businesses have taken efforts to roll back...

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Why a Small Business Should Turn to Managed IT Services

Why a Small Business Should Turn to Managed IT Services

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • October 30, 2023
  • Business

Nowadays, a business can’t really get by without using technology in some fashion, and wherever technology is involved, it greatly helps to have a reliable resource on hand to keep it functioning as expected. This is the role of a managed service provider, and while a partnership with one can be a great business asset, this is predicated on the...

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Back to Basics with Managed Services: The Value Proposition

Back to Basics with Managed Services: The Value Proposition

  • By Directive
  • October 23, 2023
  • Business

How much technology does your business use day in and day out? More likely than not, it’s a lot, and we’d bet good money on the fact that you could be doing more to manage it. That said, it’s not always clear how to go about doing it, especially if you don’t have any in-house IT talent to handle this...

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