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Are your employees still using single monitors?

by Mike Foster | Dec 23, 2009 | Best Practices, Save time, Technology

Microsoft’s research shows that worker productivity increases from 9% to 50%: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/vibe.aspx Dual monitors can pay for themselves quickly with increased worker productivity.  If a worker’s productivity is increased...

Prepare now for cost effective move to thin clients

by Mike Foster | Dec 16, 2009 | Best Practices, Technology

If you have been buying the “box copy” licenses for Microsoft Office and other applications, Microsoft may not allow you to use those licenses in your thin client environment! Many companies are moving to thin client technology such as Microsoft Terminal Server or...

Executives say it is hard to enforce IT policies

by Mike Foster | Dec 9, 2009 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity

I see this all the time. Executives say “we do not restrict our users from going to inappropriate web sites” or “we do not force our employees to change passwords—some have had the same password for 10 years.” Executives at companies who have...

Executives say their challenge is fighting viruses

by Mike Foster | Dec 2, 2009 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity

Before every IT Vital Systems Review, I always ask the executives what their challenges are. On a recent survey the CEO answered “fighting viruses.” That’s because it isn’t the executive’s job to fight viruses—that is the job of their IT...
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