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Case study: Being held to ransomware

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Inevitable, essential failure – Richard Branson

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Tradify nails the paperwork problem for tradies

June 6, 2017June 7, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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Tradify-case-study

Sometimes a product solution and a customer come together as though they were made for each other, and that is rather like what happened with Tradify and ASAP Contracting. The … Read more »

Case study: mobile app for solar panels gives users power to choose

June 1, 2017June 1, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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Case study: mobile app for solar panels gives users power to choose

Imagine you’re overseas – it’s summertime and the solar panels on the roof of your house back in New Zealand have generated 10 kilowatt-hours of power on average, every day. … Read more »

Upgrading to Windows 10: Case Study with Gareth Morgan Investments

May 29, 2017June 1, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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Upgrading to Windows 10

There’s always pros and cons upgrading your business operating system. For organisations like Gareth Morgan Investments, with the confidentiality of financial investments into KiwiSaver, Superannuation and Private Portfolios on the … Read more »

How to avoid phishing emails

May 25, 2017May 26, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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How to avoid phishing emails

Explosive growth in online activity has given rise to a burgeoning underworld of cybercrime. Scammers are using corporate email addresses or posing as representatives from reputable companies to fraudulently extract … Read more »

Slow down to go FASTER

May 22, 2017May 18, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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Slow down to go faster

To make this new new financial year your best ever, it may be time to take try a new approach. Instead of trying to speed up, learn to slow down. … Read more »

Case Study: There is no love sincerer than the love of food

May 18, 2017May 18, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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Case study Hawkins Watts there is no love sincerer than the love of food

Made famous by George Bernard Shaw, this is particularly true for New Zealand company Hawkins Watts who distributes over 2000 food ingredients. Representing many of the world’s leading food ingredient … Read more »

How to raise sales performance from good to great

May 15, 2017May 16, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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How to raise sales performance from good to great

Both good and great salespeople have the skills and knowledge necessary to become great, so the answer lies somewhere else. Numerous studies show that the single most important factor in … Read more »

The legal ramifications of having client data hacked or stolen

May 10, 2017May 26, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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The legal ramifications of having client data hacked or stolen

“It won’t happen to me or my business.” This is a common belief of many business owners in New Zealand when it comes to the thought of someone hacking into … Read more »

Business Continuity: what is it and why does your business need it?

May 8, 2017April 27, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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Business continuity: what is it and why does your business need it?

If your business was without power for an hour, how would your employees continue to do their work? It’s probably quite manageable, right? But what if it was a whole … Read more »

New Zealand businesses use the cloud to cushion risk

May 4, 2017May 4, 2017 Posted by Vitor Cabrera
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New Zealand businesses use the cloud to cushion risk

In recent times, natural disasters like floods in the North Island and the Christchurch earthquakes are a reminder that we never know when there will be an event that could … Read more »

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