Entries by Kirill Bensonoff

4 Business Agility Secrets: Lessons From Elmo

January 28, 2015 in , /by

Elmo is the world’s favorite furry Sesame Street red monster. In fact, to date, he’s the most recognizable children’s character in the United States according to research from Marketing Evaluations, Inc. There’s much we can learn from Elmo and his preschool fundamentals taught to preschoolers. Especially in your organization’s business agility. Lesson #1: Don’t Eat […]

6 Critical IT Operation Mistakes A CXO Should Avoid

January 22, 2015 in , /by

A CFO friend of mine, Robert, just told me that he lost two senior IT managers to their largest competitor two weeks ago. The story was no different than the ones we hear from many CXOs struggling to retain highly-qualified techs. It’s a trend many human resource people know all too well. After listening to […]

Data Hoards, Time to Backup!  

January 21, 2015 in /by

In a perfect world, we would not have system failures, data corruption and situations where data was simply deleted. The golden age of computing is upon us where people have generated a tremendous amount of data doing everyday things such as taking photos, collecting a music library of MP3s, or simply downloading stuff from the […]

5 Reasons a Smart IT Strategy is Essential to Business Growth

January 20, 2015 /1 Comment/in , /by

If you’re struggling with your business IT strategy, you’re among millions of company owners worried theirs isn’t built for scale. Perhaps you’re skeptical why you should be implementing scale strategies into your IT planning? We recently surveyed some of our clients. Their top three concerns in the coming year are: Developing advanced cloud-computing technologies into […]

7 Reasons why Financial Services Companies Need to Archive Email with A Hosted Service

January 19, 2015 in , /by

Do you know the one word that will cause your financial services company a catastrophic disaster? “Just.” Often it’s used by IT managers suggesting, “Why don’t we just host our email on our own servers?” It’s cost effective and makes sense right? Wrong. Every CFO knows email communication is vital to their organization. Last month […]