Author: seth

Here is a great question. How much change is appropriate? I mean, if you’re a business, you want to grow…and it seems you can’t grow without changing something. Not to mention that if you want to stay competitive, you must not allow yourself to become stagnant. Sometimes you can’t even help but grow…demand almost forces you to (not a bad problem to have sometimes). And if you don’t change, someone else will…and then you’re hosed. Or what can be even worse is when someone requires or forces you to change. You could be perfectly happy where you are, and then to stay in business you might have to abide by this new law, or regulation. It can apply to so many things also. How much should a business change, how much should I change for this significant other that I really like, I can’t get a date so should I change my style, and so on.

Thank you to Becky Frederick from Deluxe Corp. for an excellent webinar presenting Best Practices in Complaint Management. This topic seems to be on everyone’s hot topic list ….here is some of the info she covered:

If you happen to see one of The Garland Group employees hobbling around this week, it’s because we’re still recovering from skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling last week in New Mexico! We had our second annual retreat last week at the The Lonestar Lodge, our “other” office settled nicely on the mountains of Angel Fire, New Mexico.

In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an Accounting Standards Update designed to give investors and other financial statement users more timely information about credit losses on loans.

FROM BANK INFO SECURITY:

We are in Las Vegas this week for the TechMecca conference and I sit hear in my hotel room getting ready for day 2.

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Data encryption is a crucial part of any organization’s security policy. In addition to putting the right technology in place, adhering to data encryption standards also means educating employees about the importance of data security. Use the following five critical standards for secure data encryption to keep your organization’s data safe at all times.

Thanks to all that were able to attend our webinar last Friday on Social Media and Compliance Part 2 – Examples. Thanks again to James Robert Lay from PTPNewMedia for co-presenting with us this month.