Enabling remote work for schools, engineering firms, financial services companies and more
As COVID-19 shut down many places of business in Spring 2020, several Logic Speak customers needed to quickly pivot from in-office operations to remote work. Below are just a few examples of how Logic Speak helped its client community weather the COVID-19 storm....
How do you know your IT is working for you?
If your physical office were filled with unnecessary clutter, it would make the tough job of being an entrepreneur that much harder. And though the benefits of a clean office are well known, some companies are still doing the IT equivalent of working on top of a stack...
Transitioning Remote Workers Back into the Office
Planning for the Chaos... With COVID-19 forcing businesses to shift dramatically to full-on remote workforces this past year, some companies have embraced zoom calls and bedroom workstations as their new way of life. But for many business models, a socially distanced...
Why security training for your employees is a must
The unfortunate truth about cybersecurity is this – you’re only as strong as your weakest link. With the number of phishing and social engineering attacks skyrocketing, the evidence is clear; All it takes is one slip up for hackers to potentially gain access to your...
IT Superpower
Continuous improvement—it’s not a phrase that most people associate with IT service providers. These providers typically fix something that’s broken, perform a one-off service, or sell you a piece of equipment without a comprehensive plan or consideration of your...
What is and How to use Co-Managed IT
Got an IT team? Leverage co-managed IT Employing a comprehensive IT staff can be difficult for small and medium-sized businesses. If your company has IT staff, they likely wear many hats with too much to do and not enough time to do it. They may be overwhelmed by...
Leveraging Managed Services to Enable a Remote Workforce
The shutdowns brought about by COVID-19 have shown many businesses that they can be successful even when their employees work remotely. Indeed, in a recent Gartner survey, 82% of company leaders said that they plan to allow employees to work remotely at least part of...
What the Heck is Managed Services?
Managed Services—it’s the new technology buzzword. It seems like a lot of tech organizations are calling themselves managed service providers (MSP) these days. But the reality is that many of these organizations are actually pure support organizations that have...
Improving Your Personal Productivity
Prioritizing Your Life In our previous blogs, we discussed how Logic Speak can help your company improve its productivity and profitability. This blog focuses on your own contribution to productivity. How can you become more personally productive, get your work done...
Taking on procurement to keep you productive
When you think of enabling or improving productivity, procurement may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But the process of purchasing new technology can be a huge time suck on your organization. And getting it wrong can lead to even greater interruptions in...
Aligning technology for maximum productivity
We’ve all heard the horror stories. An IT provider convinces a client to implement a shiny, new, expensive system that does not make them more productive or further their business initiatives. The company loses time and money and is no closer to accomplishing their...
Enabling productivity through technology
From the beginning, the promise of technology was that it would increase productivity in both our business and personal lives. And in many ways, it has done just that. But how many businesses are not as productive as they could be because of their technology? How many...
Email Monitoring for the Win
Smaller companies may be at a bigger risk of cybercrime than the Fortune 500. We’ve helped many clients who have been targeted by cybercriminals, saving valuable company data. Read more about how we keep you safe.
Weathering COVID-19 and other storms with technological connectivity
In our last blog, we discussed the importance of human connectivity—the ability of humans to connect with each other with as much efficiency, speed, and accuracy as when they are in the same room. This is especially important during remote work due to COVID-19....
How to disconnect in an always-connected world
One of the side effects of working remotely during COVID-19 is that it can feel like we are always at work. While this blog series has focused on how connectivity can help your business weather the COVID-19 storm and beyond, there is a danger to being always...
Connectivity and its impact on your business
At Logic Speak, we understood the enormous impact of connectivity on your organization even before the pandemic. But COVID-19 has magnified these impacts exponentially. Organizations that have invested in both technological and human connectivity—especially via cloud...
Enabling human connectivity during COVID-19 and beyond
What comes to mind when you hear the word 'connectivity?' For many, it means the Internet, switches, routers, and networks—the traditional concept of connectivity. As we work remotely, technological connectivity is essential to helping employees work more effectively...
Understanding the role of connectivity in today’s remote world
Our concept of connectivity has changed over the past six months. It likely means something different to each of us as we have been required to limit our face-to-face connections. In business, the term’s meaning was once limited to switches, routers, networks, and the...
Collaboration Training to Increase Adoption and Maximize Your Investment
In a previous blog, we discussed why it is beneficial to implement your Microsoft Teams collaboration information infrastructure and processes in a way that maximizes productivity for your small or medium-sized business (SMB) rather than reinforcing the processes you...
Ensuring safe and secure collaboration
As a small or medium-sized business (SMB) in this new world of remote work, you may not be thinking about security. You’re probably just trying to figure out how to enable your staff to work productively when all or most of them are working from home. Even before...
Tools for effective collaboration
Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams help organizations collaborate more effectively—whether employees are in the office or working remotely. This blog discusses the components of a good remote work strategy and describes some of the tools in Microsoft 365 that provide...
Collaboration with an Information Architecture
“Can you see me? It says my camera is on.” “Can anyone see my screen?” “Sorry I’m late, I had to download an extension.” “Did everyone get the agenda? No, okay, let me send it again.” If you have been anywhere near a video conference over the past several weeks,...
Collaboration for COVID-19 and beyond
Can’t you just piece together some free tools and wait for COVID-19 to end? The stay-at-home orders resulting from COVID-19 have underscored the importance of collaboration—employees need to communicate effectively and work as teams while physically separated and...
Work From Home
Work From Home Tips During this unprecedented pandemic, we want to do as much as we can to help you be productive without having to go in the office. Above all, we want to encourage you to be flexible. Things will be different for a while, but my bet is - when this...
Best Practices for Running Your Technology, So It Doesn’t Run You
Information technology (IT) is a topic that seems hard because it can be confusing. But it’s not. (at least not for the right technology vendor) Business owners and professionals often view technology in terms of things like hardware, software, networks, and data....