The Three Biggest Intranet Mistakes Most Companies Make
A well designed and implemented intranet can be a powerful productivity tool for your company, making it easier for people to find the information they need to get their jobs done and to collaborate with others in the organization. Unfortunately, many corporate intranets end up being underutilized and stuffed to the point of being unusable. […]
The REAL Business Technology Stories of 2018
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was last month in Las Vegas, and the “life-changing” hyperbole reached epidemic, perhaps even pandemic, levels. Industry analysts and technology pundits alike are babbling about yet another season of smart cars, smart homes, televisions as big as walls, data that is, well, big, and the perennial alphabet soup of favorites like AI, […]
Microsoft Productivity Tool: The To Do List
Gone are the days of sticky notes posted everywhere being an effective way to remember and accomplish important items. Knowing what resources you have at your fingertips, and how you can utilize those resources to maintain organization is the first step to becoming more productive. Microsoft is always striving to provide tools that allow its […]
Did you know: We do end-user training!
The best technology is worthless if you don’t know how to use it. With this in mind, we are proud to announce the formation of our new End-User Technical Training Center. The center will be delivering training on standard business applications like Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint as well as cybersecurity and IT processes. We can […]
Finding Opportunity in the Cloud: Platform-as-a-Service
In our previous post we talked through the most basic form of cloud computing services, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). In this post, we’ll discuss the next level of cloud computer services, Platform-as-a-Service. What is Platform-as-a-Service Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a cloud-based environment that comes with everything required to support web-based applications. The PaaS vendor provides networking equipment, server hardware, and […]
Is it Possible to Manage Change Successfully?
Efforts to change have an abysmal success rate. Just think of your efforts to eat healthier, learn a new language, or stop binge-watching Stranger Things. Then think about those changes on a much bigger scale. When you try to make changes at an organizational level, things go sideways fast. This is especially true when you […]
Peter Melby speaking at Navigate 2017
I.T. managers at Continuum’s Navigate 2017 conference in Las Vegas will hear about Greystone’s unique approach to hiring and management in Peter Melby’s talk, “Boss or Babysitter?”. Greystone has reinvented traditional HR on the way to being one of Colorado’s top workplaces. Peter has used the challenges from Greystone’s notable growth to build a simple, consistent […]
Want to work better together? Start with your collaboration weakness.
We all know that working together is hard. Very, very hard. I have worked on projects with dozens of people from across the globe: different cultures, different time zones, different expectations. I have also worked at companies that only had a handful of people working out of the same office. In both situations, it was […]
Maybe IT wasn’t completely wrong
Not too long ago, business leaders had to go to IT to get new software approved and installed. Now, enterprise grade business applications are a Google search and credit-card swipe away. And the quality and variety are outstanding! Want to get your team collaborating and reduce the volume of email? A quick web search will […]
Finding Opportunity in the Cloud: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
In our first post in the Finding Opportunity in the Cloud series, we defined what “The Cloud” is. Now that we know what cloud is, we’ll dig into the types of cloud computing services. There are three types of cloud service, each meeting the specific requirements of different types of business problems. The first type […]
