Change Is Daunting But You Have Goals: What to Do as You Craft Your Budget for 2017

  Crazy: doing the same thing and expecting a different result.   Last September, I embarked on a journey towards getting out of personal debt. It led me to make some unfamiliar decisions and to try new things to achieve my desired result.   Here are my thoughts on how...

The Five P’s of an Effective Managed Help Desk

For 13 years, TecFac has provided managed services including help desk, monitoring & maintenance, change management, and etc. To learn about the five P’s for an effective managed help desk, check out this week’s vlog below:

Cloud Migration Playbook

I’ve been spending some time considering the term “cloud migration”.  To me, migration connotes a large one-way traveling event, with varying degrees of preparation invested in the process.  When birds migrate, I don’t think they spend much time considering the process of flying south.  One day, a goose might think...

Busy Doesn’t Mean Delivering: How a Priority Life Delivers

The other day, our Founder and President, Chris Saah, was reading the book “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” by Greg McKeown.  He read this gem of a quote: “The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior...

Out of the Trenches: Tech Talk with Jesse Carrillo, Hines

Jesse Carrillo, SVP & CIO at Hines, has been a colleague and friend since we both served as Realcomm Advisory Council Co-Chairs in 2010. Jesse has a strong reputation for running a tight ship; one that embraces best practices, is efficient and cost effective, and fosters innovation and agility. Our...

OneNote Updates for Desktop, Web, and Mobile Apps

Last week, Microsoft announced new updates for OneNote web, desktop, and mobile apps. Before regularly using OneNote for notetaking, I used a mixture of Word documents and handwritten notes to keep track of my lists. This ran the risk of losing important notes, and it also built a backlog of...

American productivity, European Lifestyle : How to invoke margin in the fast-paced, nonstop demands of business culture

As a small business, we get to create our culture and build our business with the values that we have. One of the values we hold to is to do excellent work. We transform businesses. We do it well. We’ve done it repeatedly. We facilitate a change in technology, processes...