The holiday season is often a time for reflection and strategizing for the coming year. I worry about 2 things. First, people who wait until the holidays to start thinking…
After more than 20 years in our industry, I’ve seen a lot of changes. What’s funny is how the technological advancements are reflected in the job market and the trajectory…
Nothing hurts the soul or the bank account like regret. When business owners are confronted with the real costs of keeping data and business systems resilient and secure – some…
One of the best pieces of business wisdom that Jay and I ever heard was “surround yourself with people smarter than you, and then get out of their way.” Now…
An often-cited study conducted by US congress a couple years ago reports that after suffering a major data-loss disaster, almost 30% of businesses close within 2 years because the damage [...]
We’re at the sad, ironic and kinda funny point where people are actually embarrassed that they own a BlackBerry smartphone. The once mighty business tool and symbol of the tech-elite [...]
After almost a decade, we went through the very grown up and emotionally difficult task of raising our rates for ITW Consulting. Some of our clients (you) might remember the…
The Onion is making fun of big tech companies who talk about “the cloud.” This is fascinating to me. You know a topic has completely saturated our culture when it…
Everyone in our industry knew this one was coming. According to reports, “a stolen password was used to access an employee Dropbox account containing a project document with user email [...]
The recent assault on Yahoo resulted in the compromise of almost 450,000 passwords (more here). Big firm hacks like this are becoming the rule, not the exception nowadays. According to… [...]
