Tag Archive for Technology

GDPR compliance: An explanation for SMEs

So, you’ve heard of GDPR but think it only applies to the big boys. You’ve done a bit of reading but don’t quite get it. Four per cent of revenue fines for breaching new data protection rules? Surely micro businesses are exempt, right? Well, there’s no escaping the fact that the looming General Data Protection
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Five common social engineering attacks and small businesses

Start a new job within a large enterprise and some form of cybersecurity training will be included in initial onboarding. This is being driven by the carousel of headlines relating to hacks and data breaches, and the subsequent stories of large regulatory fines, huge damages to reputation and drastic drops in sales and profitability. It’s
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Solving the skills gap: Cultivating the future employee

There are not many conversations, presentations or media briefings about analytics that don’t at some point touch on the issue of ‘people and skills’. Convincing business leaders of the merits of analytics given the technology now available is often the easy part. It inevitably leads on to what the barriers are to analytics deployment. And
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How technology is set to change the face of job hunting

Recruitment can be really tough, especially for a small business. Coming to the decision of taking on a new staff member is often the result of working at full capacity until breaking point is reached, or – worse – losing a valued team member. Although the need to recruit and grow your team is usually
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Small business fraud: Why you could be the victim

Many of us may think that fraud or scams tend to be almost the stuff of legend: the emergence of a long-lost relative on the other side of the world asking for donations, or the bank clerk in Burkina Faso who has millions of dollars to share. While such attempts may make great conversation around
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What are the three most important technologies for SMEs?

We see the three main areas of change being: enabling your people to do their job, minimising the time needed for non-value-adding tasks and enabling scale. There are a whole host of productivity and collaboration tools out there, and always have been. The challenge for SMEs has been one of investment, presenting a big barrier
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How to strengthen the weakest link in your cyber security chain

Last Sunday marked the 11th annual Data Protection Day. An event which, as its name suggests, was created to champion the importance of protecting what has become every business’s most valuable asset… Data. It’s message has never been more important or relevant, especially given that last year we witnessed some of the biggest breaches ever
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The benefits of taking your documents digital

Companies waste money in many ways, from £28 billion per year in unnecessary meetings to £122 billion in ineffective training. But one of the most significant (and least frequently recognised) ways in which businesses can unnecessarily lose cash is a failure to identify and update legacy processes. All too often, organisations continue to unquestioningly use
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