CEOs BizJournals Column

Outsourcing your business’s IT services and support sounds great on paper. You have an entire team of technology experts at your disposal who will take care of everything from server patching to issue remediation to upgrade projects to high-level strategy. Meanwhile, you can focus your time and effort on your actual job, not your technology….

Will 2019 be the year that businesses finally implement and enforce company-wide use of password management software? I sure hope so.   Why our businesses must consider a password manager Thanks to the rise in cloud applications and web resources, most of us are juggling a massive number of accounts on a day-to-day basis. Your…

Remember when the iPad came out as the “laptop killer”? For a while there, it seemed like tablets might be able to claim the top spot as the primary device corporations would use to get their work done. They’re slick, ultra-portable, and can do many of the things a desktop or laptop can do. But…

By now you’ve probably heard about Slack, the fastest-growing Software-as-a-Service startup ever, and a $5 billion business just 5 years after its launch. For quite a while Slack was the major player when it came to all-in-one communication and collaboration tools for business. Then, in 2017, the ever-dominant Microsoft threw its hat in the ring…

Remember the days of having one file server that housed all of your invaluable company data in a single secure spot? Sure, there were some limitations to this technology (say, for example, only being able to access your files when you were literally seated at your desk…), but for the most part we all made…

On a typical day at your office, how many desks are empty? For many businesses, the answer is “enough to make me question why I’m shelling out so much cash for all this vacant square footage.” According to Global Workplace Analytics, half of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with at least…

Between 2014 and 2015, investors poured $800 million into blockchain startups.   The market for blockchain is expected to reach $7.7 billion by the year 2022, up from $411.5 million last year.   Today, no one can seem to stop talking about this fancy new technology that will fundamentally uproot the world as we know…

Let’s talk about your bandwidth.   Bandwidth, Heinan? Really?   Yes, really.   It’s not a particularly sexy topic, but it’s one that can have crippling effects on our productivity (and therefore our revenue) if we don’t give it proper attention.   What’s the big deal? The big deal is that businesses are increasingly going…

Is it frustrating for you, too?   You’re at home and all your technology does exactly what you need it to do.   You check in with your family and friends over any number of social media platforms. You pop open your internet browser and have your grocery shopping finished in minutes. You update the…

I’ve predicted that LinkedIn is going to explode over the course of 2018.   As you might expect, this has gotten me a lot of raised eyebrows over the past couple months. Why LinkedIn? Why now?   Allow me to present my case.   Why LinkedIn could be so powerful for our businesses this year…