Hotel IT: The Pre-Opening Technology Checklist
Friday, 10 April 2026
Good hotel IT design starts with the architecture, not the fit-out. The decisions you make at the beginning – network infrastructure, cabling, and systems – will determine technology performance and costs for decades, so it’s worth investing in them upfront. I’ve been doing this for more than 25 years and I keep seeing the same thing. The building is nearly finished. The furniture is
- Published in IT Consultancy
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Why Are You Waiting? The Real Reasons Decision-Makers Are Hesitant to Deploy AI
Thursday, 09 April 2026
The buzz around Artificial Intelligence, particularly Microsoft Copilot, is impossible to ignore. Pundits promise a new era of productivity, while headlines tout revolutionary business transformations. Yet, for many business and technology leaders in the hospitality, restaurant, financial services, and creative industries, the decision to press “go” on AI is fraught with hesitation. The gap between
- Published in Artificial Intelligence, Events
Your Company’s Biggest AI Risk Isn’t Security. It’s Preparation.
Thursday, 02 April 2026
Picture this: A 60-person creative agency deploys Microsoft Copilot with multi-factor authentication enabled. The IT manager feels confident. “We’re secure,” he tells leadership. Sixty days later, a departing account director downloads 200 unreleased campaign assets, client strategy decks, and proprietary branding guidelines in two hours using Copilot’s search capabilities. The agency only discovers it three days
- Published in Artificial Intelligence, Events
The small IT change that breaks a creative agency
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
Nobody sets out to wreck a launch. The team presenting to a client on Tuesday morning did not know that the shared folder had been reorganised on Monday. The person who reorganised it was genuinely trying to help. They tidied up a structure that had been bothering them for weeks, moved a handful of assets into better-named folders, and
- Published in IT Support
How reliable IT protects creative agency margin
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
Creative and advertising agencies often accept fragile IT as the price of doing ambitious work. Treating IT as core delivery infrastructure, not background plumbing, is one of the fastest ways to protect margins and stop burning out your best people. When IT holds, nobody talks about it. When it fails, everyone remembers. A file server outage during
- Published in IT Support, Managed IT
Mobile Device Management Strategy: The Trust Gap
Wednesday, 11 March 2026
The Mobile Ecosystem A mobile policy cannot exist in a vacuum. One of the most common mistakes businesses make is treating mobile phones as accessories rather than as endpoints. The smartphone is now the “master key” to your entire digital estate. It is the device that approves Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) requests. It is the device
- Published in Managed IT





