Sharma Analytics
Strategic IT Made Easy
There are three areas to examine if you are looking to reduce your IT spend. 1. Once organizations get to a certain size or age, they often have bills for telecom services they aren’t using. Sometimes it’s a long-distance service that you haven’t used in years. Sometimes you’re paying for internet at a location that’s...
When clients are looking for a data analyst we’re asked for a list of skills a data analyst would need. We’re asked what the ballpark salary would be. We’re often asked to conduct the talent searches. Here’s the secret: You probably have a data analyst in your organization already. They’re sitting in your accounting or...
You can spend lots of money and time defining and executing a cybersecurity strategy. That being said, here are three things that can be done this week to dramatically improve your organization’s defenses. This isn’t a list of goals for the year, if you really want to, you can get this done today. 1. Require...
“If you want to be successful, make two parties happy – Finance and Operations” – Alok Sharma That’s the first piece of advice we give to IT managers we coach. As Fractional Chief Information Officers, we wouldn’t get anything done if this motto wasn’t at the core of our consultancy. Remember that CFOs and COOs...
Salesforce is the #1 brand in CRMs. If you mention Customer Relationship Management to anyone, Salesforce is the first name that comes to mind. Salesforce is super flexible and powerful. The problem is that it’s gotten expensive to license, implement, and maintain. If you are looking for a pure CRM (tracking leads, sales pipelines, customer...
