August 2020 Newsletter – The 4th Industrial Revolution
The 4th Industrial Revolution, what Microsoft 365 App to use when, The Manufacturing Pivot and two great Leadership Interviews are all part of our August 2020 newsletter here.
Examples of Fractional CIO Projects for Manufacturing Companies
The upshot is that we have worked with 88 companies in 20 years as an outsourced IT Department. We know where to find inefficiencies and as a part-time resource can be used as much or as little as possible. Providing Project Management for Technical Projects like ERP or Microsoft 365 Adoption Setting Up Microsoft Customer…
CMMC – Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Recommendations
PQA Certification and Allen CIO have put together the following recommendations relating to CMMC, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. Announced on June 13, 2019, The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is the new approach by the Department of Defense (DoD) to create a unified cybersecurity standard and properly secure their supply chain and the Defense Industrial…
Manufacturing TCO
TCO is a technology acronym that stands for Total Cost of Ownership, which ideally should be low. It is a very interesting phrase that is quite difficult to interpret. This is because of how much goes into a TCO calculation. So let’s say you are evaluating two different laptops: Laptop 1 Type:Lenovo ThinkPad T14…
The Digital Marketing Rules for Manufacturing Companies Have Changed
I’ve known Andrea for many years in a professional setting and love her demeanor, passion, enthusiasm and experience. Andrea is amazing at marketing. One of her niches is in the Digital Marketing space. In this video she gets super specific on many of the things manufacturing companies need to be doing to increase visibility and…
TheManufacturingPivot.com
At Allen CIO our initial offering is to help manufacturing companies embrace a new technical philosophy we call “The Manufacturing Pivot.” This Pivot relates to the change that the front office needs to take in order to be competitive and lean on the technology side. Without it, manufacturers will struggle and stumble with adopting critical…