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March 2023 - Contents:
Presenting IT Budgets Graphically
Keeping on Top of Your Data
Worth Protecting: Your Vital Records
Massive AI Implementation Within 3 Years
This is the March 2023 issue - Volume 10 Issue 3.
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Presenting IT Budgets Graphically
Asking for the IT budget that you need is a perpetual struggle. It’s easy for decision makers to downgrade the importance of your budget request in favour of funding something in the organization’s main line of business. If you’re a municipality, then fixing roads, if you’re a school district, then better resources for students or teachers. Here are three ways that you can use graphics that I think will grab some attention.
Presenting IT Budgets Graphically
Asking for the IT budget that you need is a perpetual struggle. Here are three ways that you can use graphics that I think will grab some attention.
Keeping on Top of Your Data
These days, storage is relatively cheap–but backing up everything is not always better. We recommend designing your backup structure and process to be fit for purpose, not just a data dump. As an end user, you need to work with IT staff to ensure that your IT backups deliver what you need. Here is a look at the issues and what we recommend as best practices, including anticipating cybercriminal attacks and disasters.
Keeping on Top of Your Data
These days, storage is relatively cheap–but backing up everything is not always better. Here is a look at the issues from an end-user perspective, and what we recommend as best practices.
How Do You Rate?
Our IT Assessment Team can identify and explain how you compare to best practices on:
| • | Reliability | |
| • | Staffing Levels | |
| • | Costs | |
| • | Customer Service |
For a free copy of “What to Assess and Why,” email:assessment@tmcconsulting.ca.
For a free copy of “What to Assess and Why,” email:assessment@tmcconsulting.ca.
Worth Protecting: Your Vital Records
Is your office paperless yet? No. You still rely on paper. Despite the growth of electronic records, you use lots of paper for your daily operations. In fact, in many offices there is solid evidence that the growth of paper files occurs as quickly as the implementation of new IT. Often, many vital records are still on paper and without these records, your operations will be crippled. Here’s how to keep them safe.
Worth Protecting: Your Vital Records
Is your office paperless yet? No, you still rely on paper. Often, many vital records are still on paper and without these records, your operations will be crippled. Here’s how to keep them safe.
Massive AI Implementation Within 3 Years
Generative (AI) is a category of algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, software code, images, text, and videos. Gartner predicts that by 2030, a major blockbuster film will be released with 90% of the film generated by Generative AI, up from 0% in 2022. Here are Gartner’s 3-year predictions and our suggestion of how you might start a pilot.
Massive AI Implementation Within 3 Years
Gartner predicts that by 2030, a major blockbuster film will be released with 90% of the film generated by Generative AI, up from 0% in 2022. Here are Gartner’s 3–year predictions and our suggestion of how you might start a pilot.