Posts by chameleon

The IT issues that grounded around 75,000 passengers is set to cost British Airways at least £80m. The chaos was caused by an engineer disconnecting a power supply and the subsequent power surge as a result of reconnecting it. The incident highlighted to a lot of smaller businesses the vulnerability we all have to IT problems…

Sometimes it feels like IT has become the master of us. It is something we like to moan about that is the responsibility of a small department, an IT manager, or an outsourced provider to maintain. When it works we don’t notice it, when it doesn’t work it’s a huge pain. IT stands for Information…

The Story of Productivity We keep hearing about productivity. The Government are due to issue their ‘Productivity Statement’ this week following the latest ONS figures (measured in output per hour) which show productivity is still below 2008 levels. At an event a week ago with Sajid Javid (Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills)…

Ask any SME owner what their biggest challenge is and they’ll tell you the same thing – there just aren’t enough hours in the day. In fact, the reason we set up Emerald was to help SMEs leverage technology as a force for good, to save time and streamline efficiencies across their organisation; freeing up…

Are you looking for work experience, an internship, or full-time employment? Here’s our tips on how LinkedIn can be your greatest tool. Tidy Up Your URL If your URL reads something like this; http://linkedin.com/pub/firstname-lastname435564-tgnkghaSimply delete the extra numbers and letters.  Publish Your Pulse Articles Please write them! Too often I hear from students at college or…

It is a fact that 70% of businesses that suffer a major data loss are out of business within 18 months. The most common cause of data loss is a hardware or system failure and this could be caused by something as basic as a power cut or power surge. Only you know what your business…