Proactive IT Budgeting | The Planning Gap Between Executives & IT
Part of a series on Strategic IT Planning & Budgeting When it comes to planning your IT budget, it’s easy to be reactive: if you don’t feel comfortable making IT decisions, you might wait for problems to arise before allocating the funds to fix them. And many IT teams (or managed service providers) are in […]
3 Reasons To Move From Transactional to Strategic
Technology is about more than the equipment you own – especially in a highly-regulated field like medicine. In these days of high-speed internet and sophisticated threats, your organization needs more than a transactional mindset, where you simply buy computers yourself and only seek an IT vendor when something breaks. This reactionary approach leaves you open […]
Catching a Phish | Simple Tips & Tricks to Keep Yourself Secure
Phishing attacks and spoofed email scams aren’t going away anytime soon – last year, they were responsible for 94% of successful malware attacks! And because of their reliance on social engineering, they’re remarkably difficult to stop with software or hardware defenses alone. That’s why one of your best defenses is learning the key signs of a digital scam. In our recent webinar, we took a closer look at three real-world examples […]
Budgeting Blind: The Danger of Surprise IT Costs
We often get questions about IT budgeting. Usually, the asker is looking for a quick answer, a magic bullet. Some sort of formula to predict their IT costs, or a price tag for some big upgrade like cloud migration services. And while there are some guidelines when it comes to lifecycle management and best practices for your […]
Organizational Strategy
To celebrate our 20th year of business, Mytech is looking back on what we’ve learned over the past two decades. We asked Nate, our Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales & Marketing, to talk about Mytech’s experience growing and incorporating new team members…and how that transition highlighted our deeper, hidden need for a clearer Organizational […]
“Why is Mytech trying to trick me?” | Simulated Phishing Tests
We’re on your side, we promise. Our mission is to Make IT Easy for our clients, and many of our solutions fall under that umbrella. From high-quality security software, to an expert team of technicians, to a comprehensive approach to hardware and infrastructure, we’ve committed plenty of resources to improve your IT experience. So if […]
Assigning Staff Security Roles in Microsoft 365 | Mytech
Microsoft 365 includes a host of security settings, levels, and features. Global Admins, Power Users, Team Owners, Team Members – each member is different, and has a different level of control over your systems and your info. How do you determine those levels, and instill a sense of responsibility in each team member? This session […]
Manage Your Team’s Information with Microsoft Forms | Mytech
How do you gather customer insights? How about sales leads? Or are you still internally using paper forms that have to be entered into a database? There’s a way to do all this and more, using Microsoft Forms – the survey-taking app included in Microsoft 365. With the right questions and permissions, you can use […]
Change Advisory Boards: Advanced Models for Your Growing Business
We’ve talked a lot recently about collaboration and multi-user editing on shared company documents. But depending on your organization’s size and structure, you may be looking for a more mature approach. For example: say the Sales team uses a lead-tracking template every day, and decides to make some edits to it. But which member is […]
Stop Emailing Documents | Version Control in Microsoft 365
Think about a document you recently worked on with a teammate’s help. How many different versions of that document are still saved on your desktop? How many copies to or from your collaborator are sitting in your Archived emails – or worse, still clogging up your Inbox? In our recent virtual session, Stop Emailing Documents […]