The old-fashioned suggestion box once was a valuable tool for soliciting feedback from employees and giving them a voice in the direction of a company. In a 1954 article, Time magazine reported that suggestion boxes generated scores of ideas that saved money and boosted production for U.S. industries.

Tags: Technology, SharePoint, Microsoft, Human Resources, ATS, HRIS, Mobile HR, Employee Engagement

 

Few factors impact an organization’s success more than the ability to make good hiring decisions. To illustrate the point, consider Giovanni Carmazzi and Spergon Wynn.

Tags: Technology, SharePoint, Microsoft, Human Resources, ATS, HRIS, Mobile HR, People Analytics, Recruiting

 

Sir Richard Branson once said that he relies on “gut instinct” rather than analyzing “huge amounts of statistics” when making business decisions. It’s hard to argue with his methods —the entrepreneur founded a multinational conglomerate (the Virgin Group) of some 400 companies and has built a net worth of more than $5 billion.

Tags: Technology, SharePoint, Microsoft, Human Resources, ATS, HRIS, Remote Workforce, Mobile HR, People Analytics

 

On January 19, 1999, Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the BlackBerry 850, a wireless, two-way pager that supported mobile email and web browsing. It changed everything about the way we work.

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Technology allows companies to build workforces that cross city, state and even international boundaries. Supporting a remote workforce can be challenging, however. A well-designed human resources (HR) portal can help keep remote and mobile employees engaged, effective, and enthusiastic.

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Digital transformation is a phrase that has been tossed around pretty liberally over the past few years, often in ways that seem overly technical. For most organizations, it can be simpler to think of it as using technology to increase efficiency by automating manual processes.

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As organizations upgrade their systems and deploy Windows 10 operating systems into their enterprise domain environments, it is important to also update group policies to manage new features. This article will introduce the topic of creating a Central Store to ensure the Administrative Templates required are available across all domain controllers for a consistent management experience.

Tags: Technology, Azure, cybersecurity, Microsoft, Azure AD, Windows 10

 

Microsoft continues to address vulnerabilities around user identity and has integrated a solution in Azure AD (currently in public preview) that enhances password policies to protect against common, weak passwords. Organizations can now configure their change/reset process to flow passwords through a sequence in which they are validated against banned passwords lists. If users attempt to use a banned password, they are notified that the password is vulnerable and will need to try a different password.

Tags: Technology, Azure, cybersecurity, Microsoft, Azure AD

 

In the previous post, we discussed why every organization, regardless of how sophisticated its IT security infrastructure and operations are, needs an incident response plan. The first goal is always to prevent a data breach from happening. However, if there’s one thing we’ve learned about data breaches during the past five years, it’s that even the largest retailers, financial institutions, Internet giants and government agencies can be victimized. 

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At AdaptivEdge, we believe that security should be a part of every conversation, consultation, and solution we deliver. Our Security and Compliance experts have developed step-by-step instructions on how you can enhance the security of your Office 365 deployment.

Authored by Steve Andrews (Director Cloud Platform Services) & Raul Perez (Senior Microsoft Systems Engineer)

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