Coleman Technologies Blog

Difference between Cost and Value

The first thing that should be understood when looking to make your operational capital go further is the difference between the cost of something and its value to your business. Obviously, for the big purchases, you do your best to understand the potential value of the investment, otherwise you wouldn’t pull the trigger on it. Today, it’s important for businesses to look for value in every single investment they make. This means making cuts to even long-standing programs that aren’t essential to the business. 

Connectivity

Regardless of how you plan to connect to your home Internet, the location of your work area is going to be important. If you’re utilizing a wired connection, you will need to be somewhat close to your modem, while a wireless connection would be best served by following the basic best practices that we recommend: centralized area, elevated above obstructions, and all the rest.

Security Steps

Let’s face it, your business’ cybersecurity starts and ends with your staff. They need simple, practical directions to follow or they simply won’t pay any mind to it. You don’t want to be the business that deals with significant turnover because security tasks are so demanding that their employees would rather work elsewhere. You will want to take the time to go through every part of your IT and brainstorm potential problems. You will address situations such as:

Video Conferencing

Video conferencing tools were useful before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the implementation of stay-at-home orders. Now, it is a tool that everyone uses to catch up with people in all types of situations. For the business, it is a huge benefit to be able to meet from anywhere at the click of a button. Since commercial-grade video conferencing solutions need a little more than your individual-license ones, it is important to find one with the features a business needs. They include:

• Screen sharing
• Instant messaging and group chat features
• HD Video
• Recording
• Multiple-webcam options
• Encrypted file sharing

The Basics of Video Conferencing

Many businesses typically hold periodic meetings, which is hard to do when an entire team is cooped up at home. As a result, the business slows down as tasks are prolonged and miscommunications create challenges. For efficiency to be preserved, businesses need to be able to continue their typical procedures… but how, if they aren’t all in the same place at the same time to meet? 

Video conferencing answers that question, enabling a virtual meeting to be conducted over an Internet connection, using webcams to broadcast video between participants. By unifying a team, ideas and data can be shared and co-workers can act more cohesively to accomplish organizational goals… and video conferencing makes it much easier than other, audio-only options.