Insurance
Taking Small Steps Forward in 2023 – Weathering the Storm – with or without Insurance
The insurance sector has faced a series of costly upsets…and insurers are tightening their belts. The intent here is not to wail and whine. It
The insurance sector has faced a series of costly upsets…and insurers are tightening their belts. The intent here is not to wail and whine. It
I admit I’ve been spoiled. I’ve had a knowledgeable and talented software engineer in my family and business for several decades. If you don’t have
To some degree, all business leaders “plan the work and work the plan”. (Napoleon Hill first wrote this admonition/motto in “Think and Grow Rich”, 1937)
Taking Small Steps Forward in 2023 – Building and Maintaining Business Policies Most small business leaders do a very poor job of documenting and maintaining
There’s one sure-fired way to build a better future for your company and the people you care about: make a habit of doing small things
Responding to a SME leader’s question Thank you for asking that question. SME business leaders are struggling with cyber-insurance decisions. Often, SME business leaders seek
Client’s Challenging Situation: A friend who owned a family business, in the energy sector, needed CEO-level help during a particularly challenging time. Scope of the
Client’s Challenging Situation: One of our software clients, in the energy sector, was losing money providing core energy management services. Core energy management services included:
Client’s Challenging Situation: A family business friend was planning annual strategic planning sessions. She wanted to hold a special workshop to initiate discussion of annual
Client’s Challenging Situation: While touring a family-business friend’s manufacturing operation, we learned that the company was paying large electricity power factor penalties. Scope of the
Client’s Challenging Situation: We invested in a start-up energy appliance company. When we arrived, the company had a great vision but was in a crisis.
Client’s Challenging Situation: A local tech start-up built a prototype device to perform assembly line measurements. While the prototype functioned properly at slow assembly line
Client’s Challenging Situation: Representatives of a Northern Ontario municipality approached us to see if we would respond to an RFP. The government of Ontario was
Client’s Challenging Situation: Our client, a high-market-share manufacturing organization, wanted to inspire its employees. Scope of the Problem: The culture at our client’s workplace was
Client’s Challenging Situation: We were providing strategic planning services to one of our clients. During our SWOT discussions, we learned that our client had entered
Client’s Challenging Situation: Our client, a manufacturer, had a specialized bottling process. They required a custom-built automated bottling assembly line. They decided to build rather
Client’s Challenging Situation: The stakeholders of our predecessor company, Spirited Investors Corporation, wanted a user-friendly repository to contain and report on details of successful and
Client’s Challenging Situation: A major Canadian oil & gas producer, headquartered in Alberta, experienced high turnover of its natural gas sales and marketing staff in
Client’s Challenging Situation: Our client wanted a customized web app that would allow its clients to understand whether pickup and delivery of precious packages were
Client’s Challenging Situation: Our client has a large fleet of vehicles. The drivers of the vehicles must report the details of their daily trips. Reporting
Client’s Challenging Situation: We received a message confirming that a virus had somehow arrived in a friend’s business operating software and encrypted several months of
Client’s Challenging Situation: A driver of a large vehicle caused an accident that knocked down a hydro pole, taking down internet service. It took 3
Client’s Challenging Situation: A long-term employee suddenly retired. The person had been responsible for leading IT enhancements, automating the processing of information, and the generation
Client’s Challenging Situation: An Ontario manufacturer of custom equipment wanted to automate their family-business operations. Scope of the Problem: Over the years, our client’s clients
Client’s Challenging Situation: A high-tech entrepreneur was building a very novel, new product and wanted us to create custom software for that project. The entrepreneur
Client’s Challenging Situation: An Eastern Canadian energy retailer had considerable expertise in electricity retailing and commodity management. However, it had little expertise in natural gas
Client’s Challenging Situation: An Eastern Canadian retail energy marketer was frustrated because efforts to procure natural gas supply were not taken seriously by major energy
Client’s Challenging Situation: A family business was taking steps toward succession planning and business growth. They wanted to hold a special, invigorating strategic planning session.
Client’s Challenging Situation: A software client sent a note to us at 9:00PM on a summer evening. The note described a strange occurrence that could
Client’s Challenging Situation: A distressed leader of a SME contacted us to see if we could fix problems tied to an “abandoned” online software app.
Client’s Challenging Situation: A family business client wanted us to oversee [be the project manager for] the upgrading of their project management software when its
Client’s Challenging Situation: Engineered projects present complications. For example, to perform a comprehensive review of a hospital’s energy-consuming equipment and build software to automate the
Client’s Challenging Situation: A successful family business provides onsite testing and servicing of equipment, protecting our environment. As the business grew, the amount of data
Client’s Challenging Situation: A consulting client asked us to provide interim CEO services. The client was a family business, delivering engineering services to municipalities and
Client’s Challenging Situation: A local manufacturing company, nearing the end of its “start-up stage”, engaged us to assist them to prepare their business to either
Client’s Challenging Situation: One of our family-business friends called us. She was distressed because her laptop had been invaded and taken over by an attacker.
Client’s Challenging Situation: Our client was selected to perform an engineering assessment of a 30,000 HP pumping system for supply of fresh water to a
Client’s Challenging Situation: With the onset of COVID-19 problems, it was difficult to arrange education, particularly education of music students who needed to practice with
Client’s Challenging Situation: From time to time peer-to-peer groups need a catalyst to boost energy levels and inspire new thoughts and actions. Scope of the
Client’s Challenging Situation: One of the businesses we invested in was creating a new video advertising & messaging service to present “local advertising” to people
Client’s Challenging Situation: Over thirty years ago, one of our clients invested in a customized software enterprise resource planning [ERP] tool. About 5 years ago,
Client’s Challenging Situation: A talented group of marketing experts needed a few million dollars to pay for expanded retail energy marketing initiatives. Without the money,
Client’s Challenging Situation: A family-business client wanted to have its corporate Values displayed in its lobby. Since they had not discussed Values for many years,
Client’s Challenging Situation: Most businesses use at least one 3rd party software product to perform their operating activity [retail sales, manufacturing, engineering, etc.] and a
Client’s Challenging Situation: A successful SME wanted to take a fresh approach to a major strategic planning initiative. Scope of the Problem: Strategic planning becomes
Client’s Challenging Situation: Three years ago, a local software-service company defaulted on obligations to serve the needs of residents in our community. A colleague contacted
Client’s Challenging Situation: A Canadian province was planning a major energy infrastructure expansion. Linked to this expansion, the province’s energy utility affiliates were creating an
Client’s Challenging Situation: Most businesses have tremendous potential, yet many are unable to make decisions and adjustments to transform that potential into business and prosperity
Client’s Challenging Situation: Most small to mid-size accounting firms use 3rd party repositories to hold their clients accounting data. Other firms that perform services on
Client’s Challenging Situation: Small and mid-size businesses [SMBs] wanted information and metrics to benchmark their businesses’ performance against the performance of competitors in their industry
Client’s Challenging Situation: A local retail business struggled to keep track of its client’s requests for service calls. We knew that from personal experience. We
Client’s Challenging Situation: A major multi-national energy supplier wanted to establish a supplier-client relationship with a large Canadian energy utility. Scope of the Problem: The
Client’s Challenging Situation: We know large organizations that take pride in fulfilling their commitments to clients and meeting project deadlines. Software departments in large organizations
Client’s Challenging Situation: Companies that thrive and survive in business of more than 100 years are special. They bring legacies of success and they have
At NeuStyle, we want restaurants in Waterloo Region to overcome the challenges presented by the pandemic, keep customers satisfied, and find new ways to thrive through technology.
To compete, retailers must reimagine their processes. The ability to build custom products, share design ideas, and interact with your staff will turn into customers. Forward-thinking businesses who can develop virtual solutions to new physical restrictions will survive, and those who can astonish customers online will thrive!
To protect your business from phishing attacks, it is imperative that everyone in your organization be able to recognize the signs of a phishing email and know how to report suspicious activity.
Properly built customized software performs near perfection, is scalable, and can be updated and enhanced with the addition of new features … adding quantifiable value to the business that owns it.
Patch management is the process of distributing and applying updates to software. Patches are occasionally required to correct security vulnerabilities and bugs in operating systems, embedded systems, or applications.
Armed with facts about service and product improvements, businesses that want to outshine their competitors invest in customized software solutions that fit like a glove. Employees and clients, stand up and take notice. Growth, loyalty, and enjoyable careers follow.
Most people involved in software projects recognize there are communication differences and disconnects. Many people conclude that those communication differences and disconnects exist because some people are “tech people” while other people are “business people”.
Our mission is to keep client websites secure so that they can enjoy the benefits that the internet can deliver. Augmenting and enhancing your website’s security through DDoS protection, private cloud hosting, network firewalls, and stakeholder education. Working with a cybersecurity partner who can implement and manage your website security strategy is the best option for small to mid-sized businesses.
At Waterloo Cyber, we are focused on creating simple habits that do not cost much money and increase your organization’s cybersecurity. Cybersecurity has a chance to excel when it is embraced by business leaders, who lead by example. They lead with good habits, including planned communication of cybersecurity messages that will be shared throughout their organization.
For small to mid-sized businesses NeuStyle can build an affordable customized CRM tool to amplify the performance of the most-important business you know – your business!
User protection for accelerometer data is lacking, largely due to the lack of understanding of the issue. In current mobile operating systems, third-party applications can access accelerometer data without requiring any permission or conscious participation from the user.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software is designed to improve the way your business serves your clients. For managers, a quality CRM application will provide management with the ability to track all sales activities, forecast revenue, and foster collaboration between employees and departments. For sales staff, a quality CRM can be used to organize time, automate sales processes, and help close deals.
A DDoS Attack is an attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a server, service, or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic, resulting in Denial-of-Service to would-be users. Cybercriminals use multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic, which prevents regular traffic from arriving at your website.
Not-for-Profit (NFP) organizations face a unique set of cybersecurity challenges. NFPs must account for a large and diverse group of stakeholders including donors, volunteers, clients, and staff, all of whom must be educated on cybersecurity best practices to avoid becoming the channel through which cyber-criminals attack the entire organization.
With WordPress websites becoming more sophisticated, and the responsibility for managing the websites moving from webmasters to business owners, major cybersecurity issues have emerged.
People come to NeuStyle when they are struggling with software projects and experiencing sticky problems. The best first step when we assist people who are having problems with software projects is performing an assessment of the project. We need to understand the overall goals, the tools and techniques, and the current state of problems.
IT Processes can make or break your business. A partner who can build simple, complicated, and complex processes is worth their weight in gold.
Waterloo Colocation has the rare ability to deliver private, public, and cloud deployments through our data centre in the University of Waterloo Research + Technology Park and as a member of the Microsoft Partner Network. We treat your data and operation needs as seriously as we treat our own. We enjoy matching your services to your needs as much as we enjoy matching our services to our needs. We drink our own Kool-Aid.
The proliferation of ransomware tools, the increased use and value of cryptocurrency, economic instability, and the overall increase in data (and value of data) are making ransomware attacks easier to commit and more profitable by the day.
If you take the time, and it will take a surprisingly large amount of time, to analyze the decisions you make in a 24-hour day then you will discover the wide variety of decisions you make.
All businesses that want to grow, improve, or be sustainable face both day-to-day problems and Sticky Problems. Some progressive small-to-mid-sized businesses are working to solve their Sticky Problems and disrupt their industry sector. Some progressive small- to mid-sized businesses are working to solve Wicked Problems to change the world or make a dent in the universe.
Be bold. Be confident – your thinking is creating top-quality solutions. Share your solutions and be open to feedback that helps you improve on your solutions and uncover opportunities. Share your solutions with business peers…exchange ideas, exchange improvements, and exchange opportunities.
Your coworkers rely on your IT service providers to be able to fix anything that goes wrong with hardware and networks as quickly as possible. Planning and executing a proper cable management system is crucial to professional IT service.
As cyber risks escalate, small business leaders need to find workable processes for dealing with their cybersecurity risks.
I strongly recommend that all business leaders read 8 Things We Hate About IT. Whether you are trying to disrupt your industry through innovation or trying to keep day-to-operations running smoothly, understanding how to work with your IT partners is vital to your success.
Think of NeuTeria as sending a secret message in a physically indestructible box, with no keyhole to pick or hinges to pry open. The box arrives at your recipient’s address without a postal worker and can only be opened and decrypted by the recipient.
Do you know what browser extensions exist in your browser and what they are doing? If you do not know, then you may want to ask your IT service provider.
In business, many great solutions happen when people first have an intense desire to discover problems then have intense desire to solve those problems … with persistence.
The solution is software, in particular custom software that can operationalize your big idea and harness data to generate new insights.
Many leaders of smaller businesses have spent a few hours checking their business rewards and cybersecurity risks and found themselves motivated to take their businesses to the next level.
At NeuStyle, we take a different approach to data backup that combines our expertise in IT service delivery, data centre management, and cybersecurity to deliver a cost-effective, reliable, and secure solution.
With Big Data, we have access to unlimited volumes of every imaginable type of food … awaiting the arrival of creative recipes. But, what about
“Canned laughter”, the stuff you hear on TV sitcoms, really annoys me. Yet, psychological studies have [apparently] proven that people find sitcoms more humorous and laugh
As we do our work, we will always encounter problems. As we do our work, we will always perform many tasks. As we do our work,
… and learning from your errors proves you are open-minded and change-tolerant. Change is a good thing … even if you disagree with that, you
Many systems projects go over budget, go beyond time deadlines, and fail to function as users desire. We see that regularly when people come to
We have all found ourselves inspired by leaders’ visions of ‘a better future’. Even if we did not act and join the cause, we were
Dis-connections happen under your eyes, in your IT systems and IT tasks & processes. Your people live with them every day. As examples… While you