“Digital transformation” may sound like a buzzword, but the drivers behind it are very real. In an era where technology is reshaping businesses and industries, companies that harness technology can reap big advantages over those that don’t. Businesses must first determine how to adapt their businesses for the digital age and then put technology to work to bring these changes to life.
Author: Laurie McCabe
Ready, Set, Grow: Future-Proof Your Business with Cloud-Based Financials
Technological change is accelerating at a frenetic pace—and with dramatic impact. It’s reshaping customer expectations, employee requirements and attitudes, and disrupting business practices, models and entire industries. While no one will ever be able to predict what’s next with complete certainty, businesses that can adapt in response to or even in anticipation of changing conditions will ...
Six Steps to Help SMBs Get Started on the Digital Transformation Path
Whether you call it the information age, digital era or the fourth industrial revolution, we are in the midst of a major transformative change that is reshaping the way we live, work and relate to one another. Today, companies are increasingly using technology to blur the lines between the physical and digital worlds—and creating incredible new products and services that disrupt “business as...
Zeguro Cyber Safety: A Holistic Solution to Tackle SMB Security Requirements
Small and medium businesses consistently rate security as one of their most pressing technology challenges. But most resource-constrained SMBs are overwhelmed by the seemingly endless variety of cyber threats–and by the confusing array security solutions that promise protection. With that in mind, I was excited to talk to Sidd Gavirneni, who is Cofounder & CEO at Zeguro, an end-to-end cy...
SMB Digital Transformation Initiatives and Barriers
SMB Group recently completed our 2019 U.S. Small and Medium Business Digital Transformation Study. In an earlier post, I discussed small and medium business...
How Small Business Should Think About Financing in 2019
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SMB Understanding of Digital Transformation Grows, But Challenges to Taking Action Remain
SMB Group just wrapped up our U.S. Small and Medium Business Digital Transformation Study. This is the second version of the study, which we originally conducted in 2017. We are seeing some very interesting trends in how small and medium businesses (SMB...
Cloud-based ERP—Helping to Solve the ERP Security Puzzle
As companies invest in more technology, the risk of cybersecurity breaches increases. Businesses must not only protect more data, but also secure and protect it in more places to give workers the anytime, anywhere access they need to get their jobs done. Balancing this need for business innovation with the need to safeguard company, employee, and customer data is difficult even for large cor...
Want Expert Small Business Advice? Check Out the New Expert Showcase Series
A while back, Cindia Chau-Boon invited me to participate in an expert showcase series for small business. In addition to myself, the other contributors include small business luminaries such as Barbara Weltman, Barry Moltz, Jill Salzman, Lisa Penson, Melinda Emerson, Sandi Krakowski, Stephen Warley, Steve Strauss. In this series, we share our best strategies to help small business owners fu...