Subscription Sprawl
One of the great confusing curses of the digital age is the excess of subscriptions we all seem to have. Recently, I signed into a personal platform looking for something, only […]
Vendors and Your Risk Management
Your Biggest IT Risk May Not Be Inside Your Business When business owners think cybersecurity, they usually associate it with locking down their own systems and network: tools, policies, practices, and procedures that reduce cyber risk. Obviously, those things are crucial…but they […]
How AI Is Eroding Trust…5 Ways Your Business Can Build It Back
Did you see the scheme this fella managed? It’s one of those stories that’s easy to laugh off as crazy, and it does confirm your strong suspicions about how bad modern music is. But it actually says a lot about where […]
Todoist vs. Microsoft To Do: When the Free Tool Is Enough (And When It Isn’t)
One of the most common productivity problems businesses face has nothing to do with technology. It’s tool or subscription overload. For example, a team buys three different apps to manage tasks, notes, projects, reminders, and meetings… and somehow everyone […]
When a Voice Isn’t Really a Voice: What the New AI Scam Means for Your Business
Last week, a story popped up on WRDW about the new AI voice scam. In this particular incident, a woman lost thousands of dollars after her daughter had been kidnapped…only to find out her […]
The Power of AI…to Harm Your Business
Did you see this one? A hacker used Claude and ChatGPT to steal a massive amount of sensitive Mexican government data. Many of these popular engines are SUPPOSED to contain built-in security that prevents […]
Falling into the “One More Tool” Trap
A Business Systems Problem Disguised As a Software Problem No business sets out to build messy processes. They accumulate them through growth (a good thing) and strained capacity. One temporary […]
The Quiet Revenue Drain of Inefficient IT
Most business owners understand, at least intuitively, that inefficient IT systems cost money. What’s less obvious is just how quietly and how consistently that cost compounds over time. Take one industry as an example. […]
3 Tips for Reputation Building
One of the tricky things about running a business in today’s world is that you aren’t simply a provider of products or services. Business owners must also be Reputation Builders and Social Trust Managers. Excellence with […]
AI Security and Using Copilot across Your Organization
The chief of the very agency responsible for national information security (CISA) recently got in hot water for loading sensitive information into the publicly available AI engine ChatGPT. You may not be […]
Boosting Growth by Creating Durable Performance
People Start Businesses. Policies and Processes Keep Them Alive. Most businesses don’t fail or stall out because the owner didn’t care enough, work hard enough, or hire smart people. They stall out because early success never gets translated into […]
So So Organizations: Same Old, Same Old Thinking and Business Stagnation
Every successful organization moves forward with two elements which are sometimes in opposition: efficient innovation and effective tradition. If you’ve read several business books from successful startup entrepreneurs, you might […]