There we were. A fine team, ripe with promise. The team is fired up with enthusiasm (since those that weren’t have already been fired with enthusiasm), and you as the leader are ready to lead your bright eyed troops into the fray of competition and prosperity. All you need do now, is communicate. So how […]
COVID-19 may grind your business to a halt, but your obligations are alive and well. If only the organization’s constitution had a pandemic clause; one that allowed you to abandon all activities except those deemed essential. Sadly, the constitution template didn’t include that clause. Now you have to figure out how to hold an AGM […]
It’s been 4 years since you implemented your organization’s core system for running operations. Back then, you sized out the environment, did an educated thumb suck for what your needs would be 4 years into the future and bought not only the needed hardware for that moment but also some extra to cater for the […]
Technology has come a long way, but it’s not perfect. People still prefer to deal with people, at least in business. When we have questions, complaints, or clarifications, we pick up the phone and dial. We want a living, breathing, pleasant voice on the other side of that call. A customer’s decision to do business […]
The path to fully virtualized infrastructure started with VMware virtualizing datacenter infrastructure in 1998. Up until then, at least on the x86 platform, if you wanted to run your workload you had to buy a separate server for it; this was the core reason internet startups in that age needed so much capital, you had […]
Node Africa’s hosted PBX service offering allows companies and remote workers to carry around their office lines with them with the help of the cloud. Long gone are the days when you had to be in the office to receive those important business calls. Now with our voice offering, you can setup your desktop or […]
It’s been 4 years since you implemented your organization’s core system for running operations. Back then, you sized out the environment, did an educated thumb suck for what your needs would be 4 years into the future and bought not only the needed hardware for that moment but also some extra to cater for the […]
Voices from the clouds have, for the better part of human history, been linked directly to spiritual experiences and the heralding of the end times. These vary from a biblical deity’s acknowledgment of paternity to said deity recruiting a young prophet, with several other illustrative examples happening. This will not be what we’re exploring in […]
Technology across the board, be it the wheel or the light bulb, has had one universal benefit to business: the increase of productivity. This is why economists track Total Factor Productivity (abbreviated TFP is the portion of output not explained by the amount of inputs used in production. As such, its level is determined by […]
As a business grows and matures, many harbor the desire to increase efficiency via automation and streamlined processes. They then start to explore what Enterprise Resource Planning system would best fit their processes and budgets then invest in the licences, supporting infrastructure and implementation in the hopes of realizing 10X + performance. The costs of […]
Data Loss Prevention – What is it? DLP stands for Data Loss Prevention, which is a bit of a misleading moniker as most people quickly conjure up thoughts of data being deleted, and whilst this is critical a term that would better capture the gravity of DLP is Data Leak Prevention. In today’s economy, data […]