IT Budget Workshop

(05/19/26) – Without a budget, how we evaluate IT spending and investments changes. Beyond managing finances, your IT Budget helps you make better IT decisions that align with your business goals, needs, and priorities. Use our IT Budget Workbook Template to quickly create an effective IT budget

Pick, Mix, or Match: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365

(04/12/26) – Your needs, and how your business runs, changes over time. Your Productivity Suite should meet your needs and priorities for productivity, security, and affordability. Now may be the time to assess whether to use Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or a mix of both.

What to Do When It Happens

(03/17/26) – How you initially respond to a cybersecurity incident will affect your ability to recover, your cyber insurance coverage, your customer relationships, your legal and financial liability, and possibly your survival.

6 Decisions for Productive, Secure, Affordable AI

(02/17/26) – Allowing AI to happen through individual experimentation and unstructured projects creates security risks, leads to unpredictable costs, and increases your chance of failure. If you want AI to be an effective tool for your business, you need to actively lead and manage your AI efforts.

3 Metrics to Guide Your IT Decisions

(1/27/25) – In an uncertain economy, making the best IT decisions becomes more critical to your business. Your IT investment and spending needs to support your business objectives and deliver real results. The process, however, need not be complicated. Use Productivity, Security, and Affordability as three key metrics to guide your IT decisions.

IT Strategy & Planning: Where You Want IT to Be in 2026

(12/16/25) – With significant changes to our productivity tools, the Artificial Intelligence explosion, and increasing expectations for security and compliance, how are your IT strategy and planning adapting for the coming year? Let productivity, security, and affordability drive your IT strategy and plans for 2026.

How To: Better AI Results

(11/18/25) – If what you put into AI is not clear, what you get out will lack clarity. If your use case – your “why” for using AI – is not clear, you will not get the outcomes you want. AI is most effective when you define meaningful use cases and use well-designed prompts.

Don’t Do IT Alone

(10/21/25) – Sole practitioners and solopreneurs make up about 80% of all small businesses. At the same time, fewer than 10% of IT service providers want sole practitioners, solopreneurs, and other very small businesses as clients. Picking the right suite of IT solutions, and finding the right IT service provider is essential for your productivity, security, and budget.

Is Your AI OK?

(09/15/25) – AI is here. Your business is using AI – officially or not. And with AI comes “AI Data Leaks.” AI has the power to do good and to do damage. Managing your AI services, and security, is the best way to ensure your AI is OK.

Make IT Decisions with Confidence

(08/19/25) – As small business owners and leaders, we struggle to make IT decisions. We may trust our advisors, our sources of information and guidance, but is that enough? In order to make IT decisions with confidence, we need to trust ourselves. If not, we struggle with analysis paralysis amid overwhelming information and options.