WOO ON TECH

Every vendor in the technology industry will tell you to move to the cloud. What they won’t tell you is whether moving to the cloud is the right decision for your firm. I’ve been doing this for 35 years. I’ve watched the industry cycle through mainframes, desktops, servers, and the cloud, and in every era,

I have had this conversation more times than I can count. Someone buys a laptop at Costco for $300, hands it to a paralegal or a bookkeeper, and calls it a day. Six months later, they’re on the phone with me, wondering why everything is slow and what we’re going to do about it. What

Remote work is no longer a temporary arrangement that your firm is managing. It’s how your people work now, and the security gaps it created are still wide open. Most professional services firms handled the transition to remote work the same way. They handed out laptops, set up VPN access, and called it done. That

Your software vendor does not care whether your business survives an outage, a price increase, or a forced platform migration. They care about your renewal. Those are not the same thing, and the sooner you build your IT strategy around that fact, the better off you will be. I want to be fair here. I

I need to tell you about a conversation I had last year with a property management firm that thought they had off-site backup. Their office manager was taking home an external hard drive every Friday night and bringing it back Monday morning. When I asked them what would happen if there was a fire in