In This Issue
Happy New Year!
How Can You Tell if a Technology Vendor is Right for Your Business?
Is Lame Technology Killing Your Company's Collaboration Efforts?
3 Reasons Why Humans Screw Up Technology
 
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Tech Quote!

"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensible."

-Joseph Wood Krutch
Happy New Year!
 
At Smart IT, we had a wonderful 2014. We understand that, in large part, it's due to the relationships we've forged with our clients. From everyone here, we'd like to extend a happy and healthy New Year to everyone that has made our success possible.

 
It can make a big difference for your business to partner with the right technology vendor. How can you know if you're working with a vendor that's looking out for your company's best interests, or one that wants to rip you off? You can know for sure if you're working with the right vendor if you have your trusted IT provider choose them for you.
Is Lame Technology Killing Your Company's Collaboration Efforts?
 
Collaboration. It's a buzzword that managers talk about all the time, yet few organizations will claim that they've mastered it. It's often a company's misuse of technology that attributes to their collaboration shortcomings--which is ironic because utilizing the right technology is the surest way to improve collaboration.
 
Technology is reliable. With correct coding and high-level instructions, technology will do exactly what it's supposed to do. Yet, technology has a reputation for failing and being hard to work with. Might we be so bold as to suggest that the majority of technology problems are actually caused by humans? Here are three ways that human behavior breaks perfectly good technology.