Mike Donoghue

SME organisations that don’t operate in the technology sector, as a rule generally don’t employ technical staff that have the ability to question the IT status quo or make positive decisions in the best interests of the company they represent. In fact, most SME’s tend to outsource their IT support to external providers and heavily […]

We have teamed up with The East Midlands Chamber to deliver a series of free information sessions for Chamber members. 2016 has seen a significant number of high profile data breaches, leading to some of the largest fines ever handed down to UK businesses. This series of briefings will cover all of the “need to […]

It goes without saying that cyber security is the tech theme of the moment. Yahoo! just had 1 billion accounts hacked the other day and there will no doubt be further high profile victims ready and waiting to be sprung in the media shortly. It’s inevitable. No individual or organisation is really completely safe. And […]

Planning for an upcoming budget can be a daunting and unwelcome task at the best of times. Especially IT budgets. For businesses that operate without executive level technology input, planning for an IT budget could be almost seen as an impossibility. I don’t mean to discredit the many Finance Directors out there who have overall […]

Economit’s extremely busy Joint Managing Director Mike, finds time to coach the GB Wushu Team to 8 medals in the European Championships. We are extremely proud of @MJDonoghue & the GB Wushu team for coming home with 8 medals at the #EWUF championships! pic.twitter.com/eILeUlWhVO — Economit (@EconomitLtd) May 19, 2016

As is customary for the timing of Economit ‘new starter’ blogs I am writing this as I am just coming up to the six-month point of my employment. I suppose the advantage with being this late in writing is that it has given me the opportunity to better take stock of everything… from my role, […]