I recently read an article entitled Leverage your CRM to its full potential. To say I loved it is an understatement. We work on all sorts of CRM projects and this article really “nailed it” for me. But as I always add my two-pennies worth, I thought I would here…

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A large part of my day is spent helping clients find the most appropriate solution for their requirements – varying from ATS, CRM, funky tech to make them more organised and rich… This inevitably involves a number of demonstrations or as one of my clients recently called it: “a Beauty Parade of solutions”. These are a great way of looking at your options, but I have seen some go horribly wrong.

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So, you run your own business, you are a director of the department responsible for IT, or you are an IT Manager: you have outsourced your support to an IT Support business (so many of your are – and focussing your attentions on the running of the business, rather than the tech supporting it… good call!) But how do you extract yourself from them if things go bad?

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As an experienced IT Director I’ve been thinking “What are the opportunities and threats to recruiters (both agency and inhouse) when working in the Cloud?”

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There are many options for businesses to license their Microsoft estate, the following summarises some Microsoft Licensing common options to SME’s…

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This blog will highlight some tips (hopefully in English and not techspeak) that TechRepublic gave in their recent blog on how to conserve bandwidth, with our own views added.

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Now, it goes without saying that we all have breakdown cover on our cars, so what about our business?

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I have yet to go into a client and they shout, “Thank god you’re here, I want to discuss my disaster recovery plan!” 50% of businesses do not have a disaster recovery plan. Lisa looks at why this may be in part 1 of her blog.

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Lisa Jones looks at how recruitment systems have changed over the years and what they can and MUST do for recruitment businesses today.

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Welcome to Lis Wilson, E-Recruitment Director of HR Connexions , online recruitment specialists (www.hrconnexions.co.uk). In her guest blog, Lis discusses how recruitment solutions are changing from traditional “offline”, paperbased processes, to more competitive online solutions. Employers are firmly back in control!

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