Mike Donoghue, Author at Economit Ltd

New Clients, Accreditations and Ventures – An Update on what Economit has been up to.

09/07/2018 in Internal News /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

New Clients, Accreditations and Ventures – An Update on what Economit has been up to.

The last couple of months have been an extremely busy time for Economit in terms of onboarding new clients, obtaining accreditations and delivering a premium service to existing clients. A really profound aspect of this past couple of months is the new data protection regulation (GDPR). I’ve recently become the Virtual DPO to 3 new, […]

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

10/05/2018 in IT Industry /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing can be simply described as the action of taking services and moving them outside of an organisation’s local servers or personal devices to access them via the internet. The services are usually used and paid for on an as-needed or pay-per-use basis. The Key Types of Cloud Computing Public Cloud These are owned […]

Cyber Security Event

07/02/2017 in Uncategorized /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

Cyber Security Event

We have teamed up with The East Midlands Chamber to deliver a series of free information sessions for Chamber members. 2016 has seen a significant number of high profile data breaches, leading to some of the largest fines ever handed down to UK businesses. This series of briefings will cover all of the “need […]

Getting Cyber Security Right

11/01/2017 in IT Industry /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

Getting Cyber Security Right

It goes without saying that cyber security is the tech theme of the moment. Yahoo! just had 1 billion accounts hacked the other day and there will no doubt be further high profile victims ready and waiting to be sprung in the media shortly. It’s inevitable. No individual or organisation is really completely safe. And […]

New Year, a New Approach to IT Budgets

03/01/2017 in IT Industry /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

New Year, a New Approach to IT Budgets

Planning for an upcoming budget can be a daunting and unwelcome task at the best of times. Especially IT budgets. For businesses that operate without executive level technology input, planning for an IT budget could be almost seen as an impossibility. I don’t mean to discredit the many Finance Directors out there who […]

Managing Director, Mike Donoghue’s Amazing Team

20/05/2016 in Internal News /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

Managing Director, Mike Donoghue’s Amazing Team

Economit’s extremely busy Joint Managing Director Mike, finds time to coach the GB Wushu Team to 8 medals in the European Championships. We are extremely proud of @MJDonoghue & the GB Wushu team for coming home with 8 medals at the #EWUF championships! pic.twitter.com/eILeUlWhVO — Economit (@EconomitLtd) May 19, 2016

Better Project Management

29/04/2016 in IT Industry /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

Better Project Management

As is customary for the timing of Economit ‘new starter’ blogs I am writing this as I am just coming up to the six-month point of my employment. I suppose the advantage with being this late in writing is that it has given me the opportunity to better take stock of everything… from my role, […]

Why is Digital Transformation important to businesses?

15/04/2016 in IT Industry /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

Why is Digital Transformation important to businesses?

To predict the evolution of technology would be great wouldn’t it?! Let’s face it we’d all like to be a Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs but even some of the greats slipped up from time to time. Bill Gates once said “Two years from now, spam will be solved…” not quite Bill, some may say […]

Does your A team know your plan A?

29/03/2016 in Resource Structuring /by itemprop="author" Mike Donoghue

Does your A team know your plan A?

A business cannot function effectively without staff buying in to its technology strategy. A cultural understanding and knowledge of how individuals should utilise a company’s chosen tech tools for optimum performance is key. Whether inputting data, writing word documents, creating applications or supporting the infrastructure; technology should work to increase individual performance as well as […]

Mike Donoghue

Entries by Mike Donoghue