Data backup solutions
This guide considers the business benefits of backup, including the specific advantages it can deliver in terms of business continuity, disaster recovery, and other areas.
IT management
Good IT management is essential to achieving value from IT systems and managing the risks associated with them. IT management covers the full lifecycle of systems, from the initial decision to invest in a system through its operational life until it is no longer needed and ultimately decommissioned.
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Business continuity
Developing a digital marketing strategy
This guide provides an overview of some of the many management issues involved, for example the role of backup as a part of broader business continuity and resilience strategies. These highlight the fact that backup is not merely a technology issue but one that can go to the heart of the business's survival.
Brace yourselves
When a disaster hits, businesses want to know that there is a plan in place to get them back on track. Sam De Silva outlines how business continuity plans can help deal with disruptions
Business Continuity Management
This introductory guide will offer tools, tips and techniques for businesses of any size.
IT infrastructure
My home data backup strategy
Data is at the heart of our personal and business lives today. Protecting data from malware or hardware failure is essential to ensure a business can continue trading.
Webinar resources
Thank you for registering on to the Business and Management Faculty's webinar, Five key questions all boards should ask about fraud, broadcast on 16 October.
Behind the clouds: Getting the hang of cloud computing
Develop your awareness of cloud computing and its risks, with Peter Mandich’s introduction to the faculty’s new report for internal auditors.
Bring your own devices policy
Mark Taylor of the IT faculty explains the pros and cons of adopting BYOD and runs through practical tips for developing effective a BYOD policy.
IT governance and strategy
Helping your business stand out with onboarding tools
Jessica Pillow of Pillow May chartered accountants considers the different tools available for onboarding clients into your growing cloud practice, including examples with GoProposal and Practice Ignition.
Project ready
Do you know the difference between Agile and a structured approach to project management? Which is best? Mike Acaster explains why a combination of both could help in business.
Developing a social media policy
Policies should be put in place to actively manage opportunity and risk. This Helpsheet sets out how this might be achieved and complements the IT Faculty guide Social media and the law. The Helpsheet takes into account modern working practices, which might also include bringing outside contractors and consultants into the working environment.
Finance in a Digital World
ICAEW is collaborating with Deloitte to ensure its members and students have the knowledge and skills to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the fourth industrial revolution and to meet its challenges head on. Log-in to access exclusive content, including: eLearning, webinars and bite-sized summaries on individual technologies and the broader impact of digital technologies on finance.
Making information systems work
Making information systems work
Making Information Systems Work is about the successful application of IT by business and government. It supports informed debate and practice on the basis of three themes –value, trust and standards.
Legal considerations and implications for cloud adoption
There are a number of legal implications that should be considered by both accounting practices and small businesses in the UK before adopting cloud computing services.
Cloud adoption
Read our three guides to cloud adoption – what are the risks and how to choose a cloud platform?
Digital transformation
The guide to Digital Transformation outlines the business benefits including increased customer engagement, flexible working and more.
Industry press
The Library & Information Service provides a hand-picked collection of industry press articles as a benefit of membership. If you are unable to access an article, please see our Help and support or contact library@icaew.com
AI in data governance
The article explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving small business data governance. Topics covered include the consideration of AI as a way to augment human intelligence, how AI can help in democratizing data governance, and the ability of AI in identifying internal and external data sets and evaluating the importance of the data sets to an organization's target performance metrics.
Delivering cloud in the financial services sector
The article reports that the financial services community has become one of cloud’s keenest users, as regulator attitudes to the technology relax to find how its appetite for digital transformation is perceived. It mentions that the financial data is very valuable and sensitive to move off-premise and entrust to the public cloud. It further reports that the number of financial services organisations had small pockets of cloud use emerging at the time.
Managing culture in a dynamic environment
The article offers information on the role of the member of boards to managing company' culture in a dynamic environment. It mentions the ways to effectively oversee the company's culture including seek feedback and measure what actually matters, to know the impact of digital transformations and to pay attention to the evolving work environment.
The changing face of the datacentre
The role datacentres play in the wider enterprise IT landscape is changing to meet the growing variety of enterprise data processing requirements. The article explores the changing role of datacentres in the enterprise information technology (IT) landscape. It advises companies to build new, smaller datacentres rather than enlarging existing ones. Companies are advised to introduce artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to the datacentre.
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Useful links
Data protection and your business
Government guidance on data protection, covering: recruiting staff; managing staff records; marketing products or services; monitoring staff at work and CCTV
Guidance for the use of cloud service providers by financial institutions
The EBA Recommendations clarify the EU-wide supervisory expectations if institutions intend to adopt cloud computing, so as to allow them to leverage the benefits of using cloud services, while ensuring that any related risks are adequately identified and managed.
Next generation mobile technologies: An update to the 5G strategy for the UK
This document summarises the progress made by the government to deliver against the goals outlined in the 5G Strategy and the steps to be taken to ensure that the UK is a global leader in this area.
Blockchain what you need to know
Industry presentation what you need to know about blockhain by Areiel Wolanow, Managing director of Finserv Experts.
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