Earlier this month, we completed our move to the new Compugen office in Montreal. Like many other organizations around the world, we ended up with a mostly unoccupied office for the better part of the last two years. Most of our staff went either remote or hybrid, and even when workers did come in, it was not the full house that we were used to seeing. The result was a lot of unutilized space and equipment – something had to change.

Managed Services are undergoing a metamorphosis, as are the Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that deliver them. A new breed of MSPs is branching off from the asset-based technology paradigm of performing the day-to-day care and feeding of the technology you own. Following the market shift, these MSPs instead approach IT management with the primary goal of supporting your business outcomes and using emerging technology as an enabler.

Conventional wisdom will tell you that considering the idea of unlimited anything and working towards it is a fool’s errand. Naturally, in a world of finite resources – whether they are materials or labour – such as that which we live in, focusing your energy to approach the concept of limitless sounds like nothing more than a pipe dream. But what if I told you that you could get close?

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is defined as “the process of developing the self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal skills vital for school, work, and life success.” By developing these positive traits, students are better able to cope with everyday challenges and benefit academically, professionally, and socially. Individually, children thrive, and schools improve the quality of their product students. On a macro level, workplaces benefit, and society strengthens as a whole.

When you’re looking to solve an IT problem, how do you narrow down your choices and decide on the one? Maybe you’re looking for servers, more cloud storage, or a higher level of security. It’s easy to say look for the solution that does what you need – but these same tools can be sourced from multiple potential IT partners. What then?