Comments on: Five Tech Trends You Can’t Stop

By: Lance Mann

Lance Mann — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:41:12 +0000

I think another potential tech issue that some firms are ignoring is the ability to telecommute. I cannot tell you how many people say that they can accomplish more by working from home than going into the office and at most firms this is still frowned upon. I believe allowing this practice periodically also improves employee morale since it shows that the employer trusts the employee to work efficiently even when away from the workplace.

LRM

By: Gary Boomer

Gary Boomer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:42:58 +0000

Excellent article. Most firms hire IT people who know how to maintain infrastructure rather than act as innovators. IT leadership skill requirements are changing.

Gary

By: Joe Eckelkamp

Joe Eckelkamp — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:19:53 +0000

As always, great thought provoking stuff–particularly the idea of using company provided cell phones and USB devices to enhance security.

I also wonder, though, about what to do about people using even company owned thumb-drives, etc., to transfer data to a home computer, etc. (A colleague’ miscreant employee took all kinds of client data on the way out the door to steal clients for their own new firm.) Plus, it becomes even more of an issue as we move to hosted solutions accessible from anywhere, like Creative Solutions’ Virtual Office. Hosted solutions still are the best way to go, but they do create new risks—even if it is only the printing of information at remote sites that may not routinely shred info (like homes).

By: Richard Scott, CFO

Richard Scott, CFO — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:39:08 +0000

Rick,

I disagree with the use of Facebook etc. I don’t know how any
organization can control the wasted time that will occur. We have lots of resources for research, communication etc.

Richard Scott, CFO