[Updated 2022] IT policies and procedures play a strategic and crucial role in making sure that your company’s corporate information is safe. 策略记录人员和其他IT系统如何访问您的数据和网络. Policies and procedures work together with your technical security controls to protect confidential information from unauthorized access, 信息披露, 腐败, 损失, 以及物理和电子形式的干扰. When it comes to protecting information, maintaining privacy is just one aspect of security. You also need to be concerned with the information’s accuracy and your ability to access it when you need to. 在IT[…]
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如何选择IT供应商
Choosing a reliable service for your company’s IT needs saves you a lot of money and time. +, the common pitfalls of poorly chosen IT services and technology can lead to frustration, 资本损失, 采用率低. 更糟糕的是, you can get stuck with a long- term contract for IT services that are useless for your company. The selection process of an IT vendor or services has become more complex as companies want a representation of the stakeholders who will benefit from the new technology. That means when you propose a new technology purchase, you must think about how […]
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不要认为没有用户培训的IT解决方案是完整的. A frequently underappreciated contributor to a well-run IT operation is the ability to communicate with and train end users effectively. Its absence too often leads to a disconnect between the way the computer guys intended a system to be used and the way that people actually use it. Several factors are widely accepted as critical to the success of IT projects and to the overall effectiveness of an IT organization. They include ensuring that IT is aligned with well-defined and understood business objectives, 执行管理层支持IT部门的工作, […]
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想象一下,在你的眼睛上蒙着眼罩工作. 你会不断思考下一步该怎么做. Not only will you have to search for which direction you should take the next step but also you will waste a lot of time while doing so. It is a perfect analogy to describe what it is like to work without standardization and documentation. 简单地说, standard guidelines are concrete benchmarks that define specific rules and voluntary characteristics of a particular industry. 从提供可靠的信息到结构化的方法, standardization and documentation serve as an indispensable tool of development to organizations. […]
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你需要它吗?如果需要,是什么样的? 我不是网络保险专家, 我也没有资格提供法律建议, 而是作为一个对IT漏洞和威胁思考很多的人, I believe that every business should evaluate the cost-benefit of cyber insurance to help protect from cyber risk. Such an evaluation starts with a careful consideration of the business’ true exposure to the negative impact of cyber incidents. The next step is to review your current insurance policy to understand any deficiencies in coverage. 如果不可接受的差距变得明显,您可能会找到一个[…]
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The key to aligning IT with your business Given the variety of approaches and number of choices available in IT for small businesses, a certain amount of strategic planning ensures that your business applies technology as well as it should. 合理地有效和适用, 战略规划需要背景, which means you should have a very good sense of your overall priorities before you can begin to think about how IT should fit in. We have defined a set of nine IT-related priorities to help understand how our clients approach technology. 我们要求我们的客户对[…]
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它们比你想象的更有用. Online meetings through solutions like Webex and GoToMeeting have been around for nearly 20 years, 在这段时间里,并没有太大的变化. 今天, 像之前一样, they allow people to collaborate in real time over the internet via audio or video conferencing and screen or document sharing. 但尽管他们相对长寿, 稳定性和实用性, 我发现在线会议仍然没有得到充分利用. Not that I don’t understand the importance of in person meetings — interpersonal relationships are surely the key to many business deals; rather I have come to […]
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数据分析不仅变得越来越普遍,而且对商业也越来越有用. 作为一个有数学天赋的人, 财务和技术背景, I am a strong proponent of the benefit of analyzing and using data to make better decisions. 不足为奇的是, 然后, I am happy to see a number of trends and emerging technologies that promise to help in that effort. 首先,数据源变得更加开放,更容易连接. 这种趋势几乎存在于所有现代应用程序中. 我们这些在新奥尔良生活或工作的人感兴趣的一个例子是[…]
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在这个基于云的世界里,需求已经发生了变化. As the cloud and other developments continue to change the ways small businesses deploy and use technology, IT部门必须适应. Long gone are the days when most IT environments looked the same — a few Windows servers in a closet and a Windows PC on every desk — when all the IT department had to worry about managing core networks. Now we see a variety of different approaches and an overwhelming number of available applications. As a firm believer in technology’s ability to make a meaningful difference in a typical small business’s […]
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