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Planning Your Business Continuity IT Strategy

Have you spent time revising or planning your business continuity IT strategy yet?

Business Continuity Planning is something you ideally do before a crisis occurs. Let’s set the scene for this post: it’s June 2020, the middle of nationwide protests and an international pandemic due to covid-19. We want to make sure businesses have the info they need to prepare and rebuild as quickly as possible from the upheaval they are experiencing. What better time to give tips to local companies? We set up a complimentary Business Continuity Planning webinar with PBO Advisory Group, tW2 Marketing, and Rad-on-Point Consulting. 

The day we gave the webinar, yet another threat appeared as wildfires broke out in San Diego county. The moral of the story? Business continuity plans are not just important, they are critical, and they should be robust enough to cover a range of potential crises.

Here is how to plan your business continuity IT strategy.

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Coronavirus Cyber Scam Hackers
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Coronavirus Cyber Scam Information for San Diego Businesses

Is your business prepared for a pandemic? First, read through our coronavirus cyber scam information for San Diego businesses. Then, find out how to keep your business productive and your team connected and learn about cybersecurity offerings for remote teams.

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has come an outbreak of COVID-19-related cyber scams, even effecting reputable sites like HHS.gov. That’s why we’ve put together this collection of coronavirus cyber scam information for San Diego businesses. Ideally, these tips will help you exercise caution when clicking or interacting with COVID-19 materials online. Whether it’s email, websites, or on social media, here are some things to look out for and resources you can use to help keep your data safe.

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How San Diego Businesses are Using IT to Prepare for the Coronavirus
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How San Diego Businesses are Using IT to Prepare for the Coronavirus

Is your business prepared for a pandemic? First, read about how San Diego businesses are using IT to prepare for the coronavirus. Then, find out how to keep your business productive and your team connected and learn about cybersecurity offerings for remote teams.

We’ve been impressed by how organizations in San Diego are taking quick action to protect their fellow citizens from the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). What is one of the top solutions? Using new technology to modify group meetings and events to keep attendees safe. Here is how a few San Diego businesses are using IT to prepare for the coronavirus.

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Top IT Tips for Working from Home (WFH)
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Top IT Tips for Working from Home (WFH)

 

Is your business prepared for a pandemic? Find out how to keep your business productive and your team connected and learn about cybersecurity offerings for remote teams.

What can you do to help your employees work remotely until the COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease) pandemic is over? Traditionally, the option of having the flexibility to work from home helps employees create better work-life balance. When the coronovirus pandemic led to mandatory, wide-spread stay-at-home orders, employees working from home became critical for businesses to keep their doors open. Routine operations continue remotely when employees can work offsite. We’ve summarized some of the highlights for effectively working from home in this handout:

Download centrexIT Work-from-home Guide

Here are more details about how to get a sound system in place for your employees to work from home effectively. Read more “Top IT Tips for Working from Home (WFH)”

Why IT Leaders Should Focus On Desired Outcomes
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Why IT Leaders Should Focus On Desired Outcomes

IT companies and managed services providers are notorious for thrusting “their solutions” on to a client even in situations that might not be in the best interest of the client. Forcing a square peg into a round hole usually turns out bad for the company and the result is costly downtime, not to mention needing to eventually rip and replace the hardware and software that was ill-equipped to help the business grow.

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How To Choose the Best Life Sciences Managed Service Provider
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How To Choose the Best Life Sciences Managed Service Provider

Life sciences companies must focus their energies on research and development and not be distracted by other business needs such as complex IT services. You deal daily with the intricacies of your industry and bringing breakthroughs in science to the general public. Your IT needs are many, but you may not be able to adequately deal with them in-house without allocating it a chunk of your budget that is best used elsewhere. Life sciences companies should consider outsourcing their IT needs to an expert life sciences managed service provider. Doing so offers you a number of advantages that will enhance the productivity of your company.

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Why You Should Integrate Your IT Services and IT Security
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Why You Should Integrate Your IT Services and IT Security

IT services and IT security are not mutually exclusive. So why do managed service providers (MSPs) treat them differently? Why do they often set up separate entities to provide these services?

What many IT service providers don’t understand is that these two concepts work in tandem: IT services influence IT security, and vice versa. We think it’s time to integrate them once and for all.

Here’s why you should incorporate IT security into your managed IT services.

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What Does a Virtual Chief Information Officer (VCIO) Do?
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What Does a Virtual Chief Information Officer (VCIO) Do?

You know that a chief information officer (CIO) is responsible for leveraging technology to bolster business success. For the CIO to achieve their goals, as a Harvard Business Review webinar notes, they must meet the key challenge of “balancing business innovation and operational excellence.”

Needless to say, a CIO is vital to your company’s success. Unfortunately, given the high cost of employing an IT executive and other factors, like not needing IT support every hour of the day, many companies simply don’t have the option to employ a CIO.

This is where a virtual chief information officer (VCIO) enters the picture.

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