At Octagon we have evolved as the years have gone by, we started repairing PC’s. We moved on to supporting servers and then on to networks and so forth.  Every company has different requirements, from just an email address to an all singing and dancing network with customised software. We have been in business over …

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Over the last twenty years or more, most governments have gently changed our attitudes and behaviours using nudging. How many people would regard it as OK these days to drink and drive, smoke in front of children, or spit in public? In thirty years’ time I can envisage young people being upset at older people …

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With rapid technological evolution and the globalisation of business, long before the COVID pandemic happened, we are living in an age of continuous change.   Long ago Heraclitus said his famous words: “change is the only constant” and it comes with a choice to either accept it or resist it and stay behind.    Is this right?  Change may not be easy, but experts say that the pace of change won’t slow …

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Exactly 7 years ago I met my current employer (Diana Catton, CEO). In October 2014, jointly with David Grech at Amica HR, I was organising and running a business seminar to promote the Graduate Internship Scheme at the University of Lincoln. At the end of the event I approached Diana, who was one of the …

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Probably not the most original headline. I am a Star Trek person – I can remember watching Captain Kirk, Spock McCoy and the rest of the crew on the TV when I was child. When the first movie came out – 1979 – I went to London with a girlfriend to see it (probably) in …

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Last year’s lockdowns made many businesses adapt to a remote working situation, and for many small and medium businesses this was quite simple. The high utilisation of Microsoft 365 Business and its cloud-based technology, designed around collaboration for multiple teams and external organisations, just meant not seeing our colleagues in person for many months.  Some large organisations rapidly implemented sterile working conditions and …

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