Do you know that only 49% of organizations are confident in maintaining clear and consistent succession strategies to develop next-generation leaders? We don't intend to blame them we understand that making succession plans is challenging. Every forward-looking owner desires to see their business continue to grow long after their active years. And they don't want their business to collapse because of the sudden exit of a crucial team member.
We are excited to announce the official launch of One-Time Send, a powerful feature designed to simplify and expedite the process of sending one-time notifications through Courier. It's one piece of a web app redesign that we started recently (dark mode shown coming soon). Based on invaluable feedback from our customers during the closed beta, we have refined and improved One-Time Send to make it even more efficient and user friendly.
Last week, the open-core team chat platform Mattermost announced that“Mattermost Cloud Free will no longer be offered after July 26, 2023.” This likely came as an unpleasant surprise to users on that plan, as less than a month before, Mattermost’s pricing page featured the promise that the Cloud Free plan would be“free forever”.
A new global survey highlights the many obstacles to productivity facing desk workers today – and the new, better ways that leaders can support them.
Suppose your company still uses an outdated landline communication system. In that case, you can get irritated by its limitations because these networks are costly to operate, difficult to expand, and do not offer an affordable choice in a world where mobility is rising. These are merely a few factors that show the increase in SMBs' decisions to remove their landlines and migrate to VoIP phone systems.
Today, we are embarking on a significant redesign of Courier's interface consisting of some new things, some old things in new places, and an overall reorganization of the information architecture. This redesign aims to address the challenges that come with the growth of our platform, where increased size and number of features leads to increased complexity, resulting in a product that may not be as intuitive for new users.
Since digitization has become the standard across all industries, more work is being done online. As a result, technical teams are playing an increasingly prominent role in the success of modern organizations. To keep pace with economic and market conditions, organizations require tighter timelines and streamlined budgets. This often creates more pressure to produce, maintain, and monitor software — which is forcing many technical and operational teams to do more with less.
“Every business is a software business.” Those words were first said by software-quality pioneer Watts Humphrey well over a decade ago. At the time it was a bold statement. Today, it’s table stakes. No matter your industry, you likely use or produce some combination of interactive websites, mobile apps, digitized services, software-enabled products, and even branded software applications across your business operations.
For government and public sector organizations, cybersecurity is a big obstacle to digital transformation. The two seem at odds: implementing digital transformation best practices seems impossible while upholding the highest cybersecurity standards.
No one likes problems, especially at work. However, they’re part of our everyday work routine. If you take a look at job ads online, many of them will list “problem solving techniques” as a necessity for the job role. The truth is that every job in the world requires the art of problem solving. From managing tasks to managing people, we don’t like feeling stuck, at work or outside of it.
