Evaluating Direct Reports as an IT Manager
If you’re new to a management role in your IT department, eventually the time will come to evaluate those on your team. Here are some tips for how to properly set goals and measure them.
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Leading a Business Amidst a Pandemic
We’re still in the midst of a global pandemic with many variations in rules, guidelines and procedures based on which state, county and community in which we work. While many businesses remain remote working, many others have begun to open back up. So how do you navigate around the locational challenges associated with today’s disparate […]
Organizing Your Technology Budget: What You Need to Know about IT Budget Planning
Ultimately, there’s nothing we could say here which would be more valuable to IT budget planning and allocation than this: you need to have a strategic plan. Any allocations you make in a budget ultimately need to serve the business or organization’s master plan, so a budget is essentially useless without that starting point. But where else […]
Tips for Researching New Technology Options for Your Business or Org
You’re tasked with making the call — or helping to make the call — regarding your company or organization’s next purchase of a commercial technology solution. Where do you begin? If your first inclination was, “TO THE GOOGLE!”, slow down. Sure, you should look things up, but first, you must complete an entirely different, critical step. […]
Why Cybersecurity Experts Choose the Good Side
As the world grapples with a pandemic, politics, social justice issues and other global crises, cybercriminals are taking advantage of those distractions and are launching attacks at a rapid pace. Cybersecurity and antivirus company Bitdefender found that pandemic-related attacks increased five-fold in the first two weeks of March. In May and June, an average of 60% […]
IT Blogs and Articles You Should Have Read in 2020
We publish many IT blogs and news stories each week here on My TechDecisions — and we wish this year could have seen more light-hearted ones. But the fact of the matter is that IT department in 2020 were just focused on getting through all the turbulence. We published much less “fun” stories and much […]
Why The IT Community Should Be Concerned About The SolarWinds Hack
It’s being called the most devastating cyber attack on the U.S., and there’s still so much we don’t know about the SolarWinds supply chain hack, how attackers were able to compromise one of the software leaders in the IT space, what other tools could be compromised and just how much damage has been done to […]
My TechDecisions Podcast Episode 111: Responding to the SolarWinds Orion Compromise
MJ Shoer, SVP and executive director of the CompTIA ISAO, joins the podcast to talk about the recent SolarWinds hack and what this means for IT pros.
Finding Integrators Who Understand Work from Home Technology Needs
The economy-shaking events of 2020 have forced business owners around the country to constantly adapt to shifting local health guidance, major changes in consumer behavior and spending, and an uncertain timeline for a return to ‘normal’ business operations. Work from home technology needs have stolen the spotlight, and will likely continue to do so until a […]
9 Technology Products to Help Combat COVID-19 Spread in the Workplace
While we’re all feeling uplifted by the fact that a COVID-19 vaccination is on the horizon, businesses are still in need of solutions to help contain the spread before a full vaccine rollout takes place a few months from now. This is especially true as mobile workforces become hybrid, with some returning to the office […]
