Yet, CDW’s Report on Small Business Resilience found that even though 99 percent of small business leaders believe they could recover their data in the event of a loss, only 35 percent actually have a business continuity plan in place.  As the findings testify, there is still a chasm between understanding the requirements and generating the organizational commitment to meeting them, which greatly decreases the odds of surviving the unexpected.Like all business leaders with priorities, SMB... Read More

Just got home a few hours ago from our week on the CB. I will upload some more detailed reviews tomorrow, but I wanted to make some quick comments right away about an outbreak of norovirus on this week's cruise. Several hundred passengers became sick from the virus and had fairly uncomfortable digestive problems and cabin confinement. Captain Kent and the crew never revealed the precise number of stricken passengers, but my guess is that it involved more than 200 based only from my counts of... Read More

Computers empower today’s employees to do things that no individual could have accomplished just one generation ago, but with continuing momentum behind the mobile workforce, desktop technology tends to chain workers to their desks.  Businesses are discovering that providing employees with mobile computing power increases the value and productivity of information technology and the employees themselves.  According to an article in Industry Week,  businesses can improve profitability by 1... Read More

All accounting experts agree unanimously that ‘Singapore's competitiveness remains a key concern’ and to draw more foreign talent to Singapore by lowering the tax rates will significantly help solve the issue. According to them, “Singapore needs to lower the top personal income tax rate - to something closer to the 17 per cent which is the current corporate tax rate - to draw more talent to its shores.” Singapore’s current personal income tax rates, especially income above S$160,000,... Read More