If you’re a business decision-maker, have you considered the importance of networking infrastructure for your organization? As your business expands, it’s crucial to lay out the foundation to support more functions – other than just your individual apps. It’s not uncommon to see leaders who fail to establish the right infrastructure from the beginning. Instead, they let their networking infrastructure decisions be driven by integrating a new piece of software or when they decide to go with a new … [Read more...]
Cloud Communications: The Basics, and What They Mean for Your Business
There are a lot of people, and a lot of firms, talking about cloud communications these days. There's so much talk about this field that some would think that without these tools in place, your business is on borrowed time, waiting to be subsumed by savvier businesses who made the move already. Understanding cloud communications is the first step to realizing what they can do for your organization, and the value they can bring with them. Senior care facilities in particular can see … [Read more...]
An Introduction to SD-WAN: How It Can Be Useful to You
The pace of technology only seems to quicken as new developments emerge almost daily that fundamentally impact the way we live, work, and play. It's no different for those who operate senior care facilities, and new developments here impact every facet of day-to-day operation as well. Some may have already heard about SD-WAN and been intrigued. So let's take a closer look at this technology, and what kind of impact it can have for business users of all stripes – even those in senior care … [Read more...]
It’s Only Natural: Our Journey From Cost Consulting to Telecom Audits
By Gene Waltz, Executive Vice President, Edge Insights Edge Insights has always performed telecom audits as part of our main offering: cost consulting for businesses. However, it became a bigger part of what we deliver 6-7 years ago when audits began consistently exposing problems with business circuits. These findings revealed our customers were paying above market prices for circuits that were either old fashioned or weren’t meeting their requirements. Seeing a need, we began … [Read more...]
Why Your Business Needs a Sustainability Strategy
Having a sustainability strategy may sound like the province of starry-eyed dreamers rather than those concerned with the hard, dollars-and-cents operations of a business, but such a strategy can do more good for a business than expectations allow for. So what kind of benefits can a business expect to derive from having a sustainability strategy in place? The Benefits Available to Those With a Sustainability Strategy Nowadays, setting up a sustainability strategy isn't just for reducing a … [Read more...]
Benefits of Recycling: How Going Green Can Impact Your Business
Recycling isn't a priority for many companies. This is quite a shame because they're missing out on an opportunity to improve their businesses. For many, recycling is all about saving the planet, but there are several other benefits to this ecological practice. Understanding the many reasons to embrace recycling can allow businesses to better structure their recycling programs with a focus on business improvement, while also helping out Mother Earth. What Benefits of Recycling Can My Business … [Read more...]
Explore Why Your Business Needs Auditing
by Gene Waltz, Executive Vice President, Edge Insights The benefits of a professional audit can include helping a business expose errors, minimizing costs, improving the bottom line with long-term savings, and saving time traditionally taken up combing through bills. But, even with these benefits, businesses often don't see the immediate value of an audit, and they fail to implement one. This bypass of a crucial component in a business's long-term savings plan can have a negative ripple … [Read more...]
How a Sustainability Strategy Can Pay Big Dividends
For years, a “sustainability strategy” seemed like pie-in-the-sky daydreaming, the province of idealists that don't understand business. However, as sustainability strategies have grown and developed, their economic benefits began to clarify, and soon, this tool formerly regarded as eco-granola-nonsense became a significant contributor to the bottom line. Such a transformation might amaze, but a closer look at how it pulled off such a move will make it look simpler than many may have … [Read more...]
Going Green: Save Money With Recycling at Your Business
Ever since Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox got together back in 1984 to release the book “The Goal”, it became almost universally clear that the ultimate goal of any business is to make money. While that was likely always the case, it kind of got buried over the years under shifting management fads and ancillary things we do to reach that real ultimate goal. Since the goal is to make money, we have two choices of how to do that: we can increase revenue or decrease expenses. Those looking to … [Read more...]
The Benefits of Going Green: Save the Planet and Your Bottom Line
It's hard to look at the whole environmentalist concept and not agree that it’s the right thing to do. However, in the area of waste disposal and recycling, it can seem like extra work and extra cost for a business. Especially when the only return is to feel good about doing the right thing. At Edge Insights, our experience has clearly defined that there is real bottom line financial benefit to businesses that do “the right thing” environmentally. The benefits of going green extend far beyond … [Read more...]
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