Lessons We’ve Learned: Recruiting Good People
After nearly 40 years in business, we’ve learned that recruiting someone capable and recruiting someone suited to the job are two questions worth considering separately. Potential brings responsibilities In earlier years, we used IQ tests as part of recruitment. We found them useful in identifying…
Your IT Is Working — But Is It Working Well?
For many businesses, IT is something they only think about when it stops working. Emails arrive, computers switch on, and staff can access their files. Everything appears to be fine. But working IT isn’t necessarily good IT. Small problems can quietly affect productivity, frustrate staff…
Could Your SharePoint Files Suddenly Become Read-Only?
SharePoint storage is one of those things many businesses rarely think about — until it becomes a problem. Microsoft 365 provides organisations with a pooled amount of SharePoint storage. If that storage is exhausted, SharePoint sites can be placed into read-only mode, meaning users may…
When an Employee Leaves, Is Their IT Access Really Removed?
Collecting a laptop and disabling email may not remove all access. We look at the key steps businesses should include in a secure IT offboarding process.
You Have MFA. But Is It the Right MFA?
Microsoft 365 authentication is changing. SMS and voice MFA are being phased out, while stronger options such as passkeys and Windows Hello are becoming increasingly important.
IT Support Pricing Changes from 1 January 2027
Weald IT will be making some changes to its ad-hoc IT support, engineering, PC installation and banked-hours pricing from 1 January 2027. We are announcing the changes well in advance to give clients plenty of notice and allow time for planned work and future IT…
Lessons We’ve Learned: Why We Don’t Chase Rapid Growth
Growth is usually presented as an unquestionable measure of business success. More employees, more clients, more offices and more turnover must mean a better business. After nearly four decades at Weald, I’m not convinced that’s always true. Of course we want to grow. We want…
Lessons We’ve Learned Using AI in a Real Business
Like many business leaders, I wanted our website to generate more enquiries while reducing our reliance on Google Ads. I started by asking AI a few questions about some broken code and how search engines worked. That quickly led to discussions about SEO, page structure,…