Winter is Coming...and so is the Cloud. How is your IT team driving value in a cloud-first world?
As enterprise applications move rapidly to the cloud, the role of IT is changing just as fast. According to McKinsey by 2018, only 43% of enterprises will be using traditionally built IT infrastructure (down fr ...
July 20, 2017
Rethinking the Conference Call Paradigm
The workplace is undergoing rapid change. Mobile technology continues to untether employees from their physical desks, making remote and on-the-go working patterns the new norm in this digital age. In fact, acc ...
July 18, 2017
My First Month As A Fuze Intern
As a rising senior at Bentley University, this summer is a chance to gain perspective and insight into the business world. For me, an internship means more than just developing my professional skills, but it al ...
July 13, 2017
Why Just Knowing about IT Doesn't Make You a CIO
Earlier this month, members of the Fuze team attended the Boston CIO of the Year Awards, honoring CIOs who have shown excellence in technology leadership in New England, including finalist John McGregor of Kron ...
July 11, 2017
Un Giorno Nella #FuzeLife – A Q&A with Max Errigo, Fuze’s EMEA Channel Director
If you haven’t heard by now, Fuze’s unified communications (UC) platform enables a distributed workforce to effectively collaborate across offices, countries, and even continents. As a global employer, it’s bee ...
July 05, 2017
Creating a Remote Work Culture | BostInno WorkXPlay Event Recap
In my last post on the remote work trend, I discussed how companies can harness the power of unified communications technology to empower employee productivity and efficiency when working outside the office. Wh ...
June 29, 2017
Swing into Summer: Flexibility is the Future of Work, Regardless of Season
With more tools available to professionals today, it can be hard to imagine a world without flexible working options. Smartphones have provided employees with an entire suite of unified communications module ...
June 27, 2017
TechJam Recap: A Jammin’ Celebration of Innovation in the Hub
Last Thursday, the Boston startup community descended on City Hall Plaza to celebrate innovation the only way Boston knows how – with a party. Complete with food trucks, cold beer, lawn games, and live mus ...
June 22, 2017
Uncharted Waters – A look at Breaking Barriers 2020 and Digital Transformation
When Merriam-Webster compiles its annual “Word of Year” list in a few months, you can expect to see nominations for “cable cutting,” “post-truth,” or perhaps even “lit.” If the business community were to make t ...
June 20, 2017
The Importance of Company Values
I was born into Generation X, and like many others from my generation, I can lapse into cynicism when I don’t check myself. I sometimes react to earnest action with suspicion and look for the angle even i ...
June 15, 2017
With Remote Work Here to Stay, Companies Need Unified Communications
Recently, a few high-profile companies return to the traditional headquarters. Companies such as IBM and Yahoo have rolled back remote work policies, noting they saw negative impacts to prod ...
June 13, 2017
On IT’s role in Digital Transformation: A Q&A with Fuze CIO Chris Conry
We recently sat down the Fuze’s new Chief Information Officer, Chris Conry, to get his thoughts on the CIO’s role in digital transformation and what he sees as IT’s key focus areas. Tell us a little ab ...
May 31, 2017
Preparing for the Unexpected: How UCaaS Can Help Companies Weather the Storm
Earlier this Spring, Atlanta experienced a commuting nightmare when a fire led to the collapse of a major highway overpass that carries 250,000 daily commuters. With repairs expected to last several months, the ...
May 26, 2017
UC Expo: A Recap from the Show Floor
Last week the best and brightest of the unified communications industry descended on London for UC Expo, the largest unified communications and collaboration event in Europe. The packed two-day event brought to ...
May 25, 2017
Aligning Marketing and Sales to Drive Business Growth: A Q&A with Fuze CMO Brian Kardon
Coming at you this week from the SiriusDecisions Summit in Las Vegas, NV! I’m excited to share that our CMO Brian Kardon is presenting on Fuze’s marketing journey alongside VP of WorldWide Demand Generation, Wi ...
May 17, 2017
We moved! A new company hub, right in the Hub
Today is a big day for Fuze. Not only are we announcing the opening of our new Boston hub in Copley Square, but it also marks a commitment to our employee-centric philosophy as we unveil our new “Work from Anyw ...
May 15, 2017
Hey App Gen! My Advice to You as You Enter the Workforce
May I be among the first to wish the Class of 2017 congratulations. As you receive your diplomas and celebrate four years of hard work, you deserve the opportunity to relish in your accomplishments. The dust wi ...
May 11, 2017
A Day in the #FuzeLife: Creating Work-Life Balance Without Sacrificing Career Goals
In 2011, I faced an important crossroads in my career. At the time, I was working for a rising Boston startup in the clean tech space as deputy general counsel, eager to move up and gain a general counsel role. ...
May 09, 2017
Synchronizing the C-Suite – Aligning Business & IT Priorities
Digital transformation is changing the way businesses operate, slowly collapsing workplace silos in on each other. This is most evident at the top: lines are blurring across traditional c-suite roles and new ti ...
May 02, 2017
On Being a Bold CIO: Building a Legacy Through UCaaS
Today’s CIOs often feel they need to be jacks of all trades given their broader range of responsibilities – operational issues; budgetary restraints; managing increasingly complex, hybrid office environments – ...
April 26, 2017
Silicon Valley Premiere | Breaking into the Pied Piper World of Video Chat
If there’s one thing clear about the cult of personality that makes up the fictional tech company Pied Piper of HBO’s Silicon Valley, is that collaboration is not its strong suit. Rivaling programmers, back-roo ...
April 20, 2017
Controlling the Sprawl – It’s All About Engagement
According to a recent report from App Annie, the app economy’s future is bright. Worldwide gross consumer spend is forecast to surpass $139B in 2021. With these major gains anticipated over the next four years ...
April 18, 2017
4 Ways to Get More Done so You can Keep Work at Work
One of the greatest advantages mobile technology has given the modern workforce can also be considered one of the greatest disadvantages if you let it. Workers are no longer tethered to a singular office space, ...
April 13, 2017
The App Generation: Driving Change in the Future of Work
For the past few years, it has felt like an endless barrage of talk about millennials. As the author of “The Millennial CEO,” and a millennial myself, I find it nice to know that my generation is not only large ...
April 11, 2017
Quick Lessons from Enterprise Connect: Cloud, Team Collab, and Adoption
It’s been a week since Enterprise Connect wrapped – our feet are no longer sore and our sleep schedules have returned to normal! Here are the Fuze team’s key takeaways from the sessions. Cloud communications ...
April 06, 2017
Forget flying cars – this is the future of work
If you were to describe the tools available in the average workplace in 2017 to someone 20 years ago, their likely response would be one of disbelief. One button starts a video conference with coworkers across ...
April 04, 2017
The Future of Work has Collaboration at the Core
Structural changes allow technology to enable new possibilities ThoughtWorks is an IT consultancy that provides disruptive thinking and empowering technology for people with ambitious missions. Fou ...
March 30, 2017
Breaking Barriers: New Research Sheds Light on IT’s Influence over Shaping the Future of Work
What does the future hold for businesses? There’s no crystal ball to see what lies ahead, and times are a-changin’ faster than most companies can keep pace. Digital natives are entering the workforce and ...
March 28, 2017
Making it Stick: Building UC Adoption Programs That Work
UC adoption is a common challenge facing the industry today. Without adoption, companies hold back the chance for UC to bring about real innovation for their work environments simply because they can’t give it ...
March 24, 2017
Breaking News, Sports Fans, Fuze Makes BostInno’s Tech Madness Final 64
College basketball’s March Madness tournament is a time-honored tradition not only among NCAA fans, but across workplaces throughout the United States. In fact, of the millions of Americans who partake in the c ...
March 22, 2017