A Hybrid Approach: The Digital General Contractor Model
In today's digital age, the importance of cybersecurity cannot be overstated. Every day, businesses are facing cyber threats such as ransomware, phishing attacks, and data breaches. As such, it has become essential for businesses to have robust cybersecurity measures in place to protect their sensitive information and assets. One solution that many businesses turn to...
Why New Ideas are Not Easily Found
Even the idea that new ideas exist, is not a new idea. Innovation is the introduction of new things or methods. To be fair, I think you have to break those down further to truly understand if something is new. Take the wheel for example. The wheel itself was a good invention, by many accounts,...
Water Fountains, Smoking, and Working From Home
I remember my first job out of college very well. I actually hated the job, but I loved the people, it makes a huge difference, really. I would rather have a job where the people are great and the boss is great and the job is terrible than the reverse of that any day of...
The Patient and the Painter
There are two analogies I use more than any other when it comes to educating people about compliance and management; specifically risk management, as it relates to regulation, business processes and best practices. I have worked in compliance for over 10 years and in information technology (IT) for 15, and in my experience, they are...
9 Reasons Why Backing Up Cloud Services are Critical
"Insert Company Here" is Not Responsible for Your Data: While Microsoft, Google, or AWS might be responsible for keeping the cloud infrastructure services available (which makes sense), you are accountable for protecting your data which is hosted by those services. With Microsoft, this is commonly known as the Office 365 Shared Responsibility Model , which reminds...
Using Persian War Tactics for Business Process Improvement
Everything has a process. If it doesn't it will and if it does, it can be improved. Small task are easy. Think about something as simple like trash. Step 1, put a bag in the garbage can, step 2, fill up can with garbage, step 3, tie the bag, step 4, take the trash bag...
Oil is a Dirty Word
There are lots of dirty words these days and oil is amongst them. I would even go as far as saying that if someone dropped a F-bomb, it would be seem to most as less dirty than the word oil. But people still use the f-word and frankly people still use oil and neither are...
Thinking Big is no longer the Answer
There is a reason Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra are not. Big ideas do not get you anywhere, big actions do. Solutions without actions are just suggestions How do you turn thinking into actions? Everything starts with a thought, but it is not the answer, it is only the first...
The Age of Platforms
Platform comes from the French word, plateforme, literally 'flat shape'. Even though we tend to think of platforms as websites and software these days, what tends to come to mind, in comparison, is the public square, or what the ancient Greeks would call agora, meaning to gather together. It is commonly translated as assembly and...
Risk vs Reward: Weighing the Pros and Cons of HIPAA Compliance
HIPAA is an important part of healthcare today because it ensures the implementation of safeguards to protect sensitive personal and health information. Clients, Customers, and Patients are trusting you with their most precious information; their identify and health information. How are you earning trust? How are you protecting it? During this article, we try to...