Small Business Thanksgiving
The sweet spot between Canadian and American Thanksgiving has landed and we’ve had some time to think about what small and medium businesses have to give thanks for. We’re thankful for ABW (Activity Based Work), BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) & ICT (Information Communications Technology) providing a small business breakthrough. We’re also thankful for acronyms because […]
CIPS IT Professionalism Week 2022
CIPS (Canada’s Association of Information Technology Professionals) is having its annual IT Professionalism Week this year between October 21st and November 4th. Between the days of data processing in the 60s, the ISP (Internet Service Provider) designation in the 90s and extending into professional collaboration in today’s Cloud era, CIPS recognizes what each sector suffers. In […]
Breaking Down The Uber Break In
Late last week, news hit that tech giant Uber had a major compromise of their corporate environment. There have been so many corporate compromises in the last few years that there is almost fatigue in the news cycle, but this one stands out as the impact and depth of the hack go beyond any that […]
Labour Day Is Coming
Summer gives staff a chance to take some vacation time, enjoy the sunny (hopefully) weather, and recharge their batteries. The summer days are waning now though and for many businesses, Labour Day means a return to industrial strength work at full bandwidth. BIT (Beyond Information Technology) running at industrial strength bandwidth this year means driving […]
Psychic Power Or Splitting Headache?
Microsoft has stopped selling technology that guesses someone’s emotional state based on facial cues. Between the lack of consensus on a definition of ’emotions,’ and the inability to generalize the linkage between facial expression and emotional state helped suspend this initiative. Google blocked 13 planned emotions from its tool for reading emotion and placed four […]
Where The Web All Started
As the weekend approaches, we like to review the week that just finished and sometimes get a little nostalgic. This week, a quick chat about the origins of the internet led us to the first web page ever. Oddly enough, you can still visit the first webpage ever seen on the internet here: The World Wide […]
Doing A Digital Remodel? Hire The Right Contractor
The Pandemic, recession, rising costs of fuel, raw material prices and labour costs/availability are creating an open invitation for EC & AI (eCommerce and Artificial Intelligence) to grab more of the global supply chain from both front and back office processes. From front-end web marketing to back-end AI routing and fulfilment, commerce is leveraging digital […]
This year, the May 24 extended weekend, will be celebrated on the 23rd.
This Queen’s birthday celebration as “Mother of Confederation” (May 25) has been observed in Canada for 177 years, but for the last 121 years since the Queen’s death has been observed as Victoria Day, Monday before the 25th. May Victoria give you the break you deserve. If not, you have my office number, and I […]
We’ve All Learned the Value of TP
Everyone remembers the beginning of the pandemic when there was a panic about shortages in resources. For some reason, the top concern was TP (toilet paper). Looking at it in retrospect, I think everyone was worried about the wrong TP. With the far reaching impact of virtualization today, we as managers and owners of small […]
Don’t Expect Business Growth without Exceptional Data Growth in Tow
In the last 30 years, over half of the 7.9 Billion people on this planet came online. In an even shorter period, we’ve gone from screeching modems and IRC chat to TikTok dances, selfies and other mission critical tasks from the palms of our hands. The amount of worldwide digital text, sights and sounds is […]
