What is a business continuity strategy? A business continuity strategy helps organisations to plan and prepare for incidents that may disrupt their operations. Typically, a business will identify a number of threats that could pose a risk to their functionality, and analyse the impact that these could have on their ...

Although the working world has begun to adapt to the new processes and procedures that the COVID-19 pandemic brought, many businesses are still feeling operational or financial pressures. While investing in your technology might not seem like the obvious answer, it can bring a range of business benefits. Optimising your ...

 Communication is essential for productive business. The problem is that we are all busy people. People don’t always have time to respond to emails or talk on the phone. Luckily, the instant messaging market has never been better – and businesses all over the world are using applications like ...

 It’s easy to forget that the device in your pocket isn’t just a phone. It’s a computer millions of times more powerful than the systems used for the moon landings in 1969.Yet according to the Deloitte Mobile Consumer Survey 2019, 88 percent of the UK population had a ...

 Did you know that almost 40 percent of the UK workforce don’t have basic computer skills? And 20 percent can’t operate IT or software at an advanced level?Not everyone can be a software power user, but technology is vital to virtually every job these days. This is why ...

 Whilst other technologies such as email and online chat are growing, the telephone system is still considered an essential communications hub at the heart of any business.Phone systems tend to have a long lifespan, unlike computers, and can last decades as oppose to years – serving the same purpose. ...

 Let’s get one thing straight: Mac users are less likely to be targeted by hackers and cyber criminals than PC users. But that doesn’t mean Macs are definitively more secure than PCs.Apple has claimed that its products ‘don’t get PC viruses,’ but that’s a ...

 Many businesses will have considered cyber security over the years – especially in 2020. And many businesses will consider the pros and cons of outsourced IT support. What would a combination of the two look like?Answer: all sorts of benefits. If cyber security has ever been so much as a ...

 We are probably living through the most challenging business time in living memory. According to the World Economic Forum, we’re in a recession that is unlikely to clear until late 2022.Businesses are in survival mode; keep the lights on and employee morale up. Beyond those two goals, when ...

 Microsoft Lists began to roll out to Microsoft 365 Business users worldwide this summer. The new app is available with Microsoft 365 for free and it’s the new hassle-free solution designed to save you time and enable you to work smarter and more efficiently.Microsoft is always coming up with ...

 Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) has two perfectly decent survey solutions. Microsoft Forms is the main contender compared to Survey Monkey – and the one we’ll be focusing on. Microsoft 365 also offers a survey app within SharePoint Online which is more complex and probably overkill for the typical user. But that’...

 Due to the current COVID climate, many organisations have deployed a remote workforce, and many will continue to do so even after the lockdown is eased. Adjusting to change on such global scale can be a real challenge for people. Many of us have been attempting to work from ...