It’s not easy to build an IT budget that is both accurate and agile. Between all the different vendor contract terms, pricing structures, support expiration dates, license renewals, hardware upgrades, and infrastructure changes, it’s hard enough to not overlook a key investment – and that’s just the beginning! Over our
Five Tech Issues New CEOs Should Focus on First When a new association CEO starts the job, the responsibilities and pressures of the role can feel exciting and overwhelming at the same time. Talk to any new CEO, and they’ll tell you that the first day on the job and
According to the ESG Research Review Data Protection Survey from Enterprise Strategy Group, 53% of organizations can tolerate less than an hour of downtime before experiencing significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact. Of those that experience a significant business interruption, 30 percent never recover. This is especially alarming data
Your server goes down. It doesn’t matter why—all that matters is that your network is down, and you and your 40 staff members need to get back up and running. With your current backup solution, it takes three days to get that server rebuilt and operational. In that time you’ve
For trade and professional associations in particular, technology can have an incredibly large impact on the efficiency of your operations and the overall success of your mission. Unfortunately, this kind of harmony between IT and business does not tend to flow naturally and of its own accord; in order to
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