It’s a good time to review the most popular blogs over the last year now that 2019 is coming to a close. While this blog has provided perspective on technology challenges, WingSwept has spent much of 2019 focused on big-picture business topics. The most popular topics were split down the middle, with two focused on…
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Our Most Popular Blog Articles of 2019
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Overcoming a Business Plateau: Measuring Success
This article is the last in a three-part series on how to overcome a period of stagnation, or “plateau” that businesses often hit somewhere between 20 and 50 employees. The first and second articles, Process and the Importance of Consistency and Taking the Leap of Faith, were posted previously. When you did all the work,…
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Three Ways SMBs Can Beat Big Business
Currently, the top 15 companies in the US are sitting on $1 trillion of cash and investments they don’t even know how to profitably invest – enough to spend $3,000 on every person in the United States. Depending on how you see things, this staggering figure can make you wonder how small businesses can even…
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Three Money Pits That Don’t Show Up In Your P&L Statement
Tracking your company’s performance against historical data is a great way to keep a pulse on performance and profitability. Unfortunately, while a P&L statement does a great job of benchmarking this quarter’s performance against last quarter or last year, it can’t always do a great job of telling you why it changed. That requires more…
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Better Use of Technology Equals Higher Profits. The Data is Hard to Ignore.
In a previous blog post, we outlined three ways that technology drives business success: better communication, better inventory management and better knowledge management. Attaching hard numbers to the benefit is much more difficult – that would require a large amount of research, covering thousands of small businesses. Fortunately, Deloitte has just finished such a study. …
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Do the Ryzen and EPYC Security Flaws Impact My Business? (Even More Processor Security Issues!?!)
You may have seen another batch of processor security issues in the news recently. These aren’t the Spectre and Meltdown flaws seen in Intel chips months ago – these focus on relatively new processors made by competitor AMD. As usual, they have some scary names made up by the “security company” that disclosed them in…
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Three Important Questions Answered About Spectre and Meltdown for CEOs and CFOs
You’ve probably heard the news about ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’, two computer vulnerabilities that also describe Intel’s stock price once they were disclosed. Both Spectre and Meltdown are major security risks. The problem behind these two vulnerabilities is hardware-based; that means patching these problems will reduce hardware performance, especially in the case of Meltdown. What does…
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Public Wi-Fi: A Safe Place for Your Data?
With so many people needing internet access today, there are plenty of businesses that are willing to offer public Wi-Fi in exchange for a bit of your time (and money). Millions of people use these networks every day, and while the vast majority of those connections don’t lead to any negative consequences, most of them…
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Are You Making the Most of Your Information?
Your company has access to much more information than it did five years ago. This is true whether your business is in a high-tech industry with multiple locations, or you’re in a traditional industry focused on a small number of larger local customers. Due to the amount of data that is being collected and aggregated,…
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Could Your Small Business Benefit from Mesh Networking?
One of the major new trends in home technology right now is mesh networking. But while it’s a new technology for home users, a more reliable form of mesh networking has been used for years by businesses to improve the reach and reliability of their wireless networks. With prices coming down and the technology becoming…