KB Technologies Blog

Technology plays a big role in most businesses, but its single most important role is to support the people that work for you. Many employees have demands when it comes to the technology that organizations provide for them. If these demands aren’t met, they are more apt to move on to a company that will meet them. In this blog, we discuss how technology works to reinforce your employees’ productivity. 

How do you stand out in your industry when your customers expect a top-tier experience at every turn? One way businesses can get a huge leg up on the competition is through the use of the latest technology solutions, like online ordering, mobile apps, and e-commerce platforms that make accessing services and products easier than ever. Let’s look at how your business can use the latest technology to overcome the odds stacked against it.

Technology plays an incredibly important role in any business venture, and if you don’t invest in it properly, you’ll face stiff competition from other companies that do. Today, we want to explain the importance of technology investment and some of the common issues businesses might encounter.

Your business creates a lot of data and smart businesses can use that data, through business intelligence and data analytics platforms to help them prioritize tasks and streamline their operations to help them be the most effective business they can be. This week, we thought we would go through some of the things any business that seeks to use its data productively has to do. 

If you’re not careful, inefficiency could become a serious problem for your business. While a certain level of it is inevitable, you can do quite a lot to keep technology from impacting your business’ productivity. Let’s go over some of the solutions you can implement to make processes easier and more efficient.

With technology, you can take just about any facet of running a business and make it more efficient, including your sales processes. Let’s look at some of the ways that businesses can utilize technology to give their sales teams a boost.

Technology has changed countless aspects of both everyday life and business operations. In today’s blog, we want to share one peculiar aspect of technology development that you might not have considered: infrastructure. How has IT allowed for greater delivery of services and utilities? Let’s explore this topic in greater detail.

The IoT—the Internet of Things—has proven itself to be valuable to various industries in equally varied ways. This value comes from the increased insights into the business’ utilities and how cost controls can be implemented to improve the management thereof. Let’s discuss how this works.

When it comes to your business and its technology, you want people managing it who know what they are doing. Enter the IT technician, a person who has dedicated themselves to learning the ins and outs of your technology solutions. Employing individuals who are both certified and knowledgeable comes with many benefits. Let’s go over some of them.

When a business needs to improve processes, they might turn to technology as a means to solve specific operational challenges. However, the implementation of technology is only as effective as the technology is at resolving the aforementioned problem, and if it doesn’t solve the specific challenges of the business, implementing new tech could potentially hold a business back. Let’s look at how you can implement the right technology for your organization for long-term success.

Technology poses a considerable challenge for small businesses, particularly when problems start to surface and hold back operations. When these problems start to impact workflows, you know that you need to address them. Today, we want to discuss how you can avoid these issues altogether through the use of preventative tactics and measures.

Point of Sale devices, or POS devices, are crucial for many businesses—particularly in the retail or customer service spaces. Like other industries and technologies, they have developed over time and are now massively important to the continued success of businesses. Let’s look at four important factors to consider when you’re looking to replace your POS systems for your business.

Businesses rely on their hardware in order to maintain their operations. Perhaps obvious, but no less true for it. This makes it critical that you do everything you can to keep your hardware in fighting shape. Computer equipment doesn’t last forever. In turn, this will require you to implement a hardware refresh cycle.

Let’s go over what a hardware refresh cycle is, what it allows you to do, and how to go about planning it.

Over time, your technology will start to deteriorate and grow less effective, placing a stopper on your maximum amount of productivity that was not there before. This can impact your organization in unexpected ways, and it can make downtime more of a probability. Let’s look at how you can tell when your technology is outdated and you need to invest in some new hardware.

One of the best things about technology is that it does quite a bit to level the playing field. Smaller businesses can effectively do the work of larger enterprises because they have access to similar technologies. Additionally, technology goes a long way toward helping businesses manage their customer relationships, a key component to any revenue-seeking endeavor. Today, we put together a list of four technologies every small business needs.

Business technology often takes advantage of the Internet of Things for greater connectivity and connectedness. One IoT technology that your business can utilize is the RFID sensor, which is a tag that can help you streamline processes around your office. Let’s discuss how RFID technology can be used in the context of a modern business.

There will always be an office slob—someone who leaves things lying around, like food, papers, and other things, and despite them being so comfortable with the mess, everyone else is just left wondering, “why?” There are plenty of reasons why you don’t want to be that person, so let’s dive into some of the many benefits of keeping a tidy workplace.

Business has changed, and so too has the technology we use to fuel it. Businesses are utilizing mobile devices to get even more work done both in and out of the office, and as such, it’s a bit difficult to disconnect work life from real life. Let’s look at how mobility has changed the conversation about work and how that perspective has changed over time.

Even when it is doing really well, your business never has enough money. There is always something that needs to be paid or purchased that isn’t in the budget. Well, one of the ways that you can put your business into a position where it can afford some of the things you have earmarked, is through the use of technology. Today, we’ll go through how investing in technology and technology support services can actually pay for themselves. 

Your business likely needs to meet specific criteria to remain compliant with various regulations associated with your chosen industry, but it can be overwhelming to consider everything that must be addressed to maintain compliance—particularly with data storage, privacy, and other such regulations. Let’s go over IT’s role in how your business secures and maintains compliance.