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Yearly Archives: 2020

Telework: The IT Risks of Staff Working from Home

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses across the United States are asking employees to work from home to mitigate the risk of transmitting the COVID-19 virus. But this rapid scale up of remote workers is stressing company networks, especially at those businesses where workers seldom…

Manufacturing: Economic Shocks may Revive US Competitiveness

By Dick Weisinger

Trade wars and supply chains crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic are serving as catalysts for considering the revival of US manufacturing. With the supply chain link with China effectively broken during this period of uncertainty, people are thinking of ways…

Data Privacy: Creating a Global Norm that Treats Data Privacy as a Human Right

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses and organizations have a responsibility to act as custodians of the data that they receive from their customers and members. Their task is to ensure that personal data is protected. Increasingly people are viewing the protection of personal information…

IoT as a Service: Lowering the Cost Barrier of IoT for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

There are already 20 billion IoT-connected devices, and 8 billion of those are devices used by enterprises, according to a report by Gartner. The impact of the Internet of Things market is potentially $11 trillion by 2025. The investment in…

Tech Intensity: Microsoft Interprets Digital Transformation

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are adopting and using technology to rebrand and transform themselves. Analysts have been calling it ‘digital transformation’. Microsoft has been using the term ‘tech intensity’. “Tech intensity is the potential for companies and countries to jump-start their growth by…