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9 Fast Facts You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans 

When it comes to ensuring a long life for your business, some owners focus exclusively on the day-to-day: getting customers in the door, delivering top-level service and fostering repeat business. While those processes are the lifeblood of any successful company, it’s also important to look ahead to the future—and plan for the unexpected.  That’s where a business continuity plan comes in. What happens to your business in the case of a fire, flood, power interruption—or some other unexpected event that interrupts your business’s operations? How will you serve your customers? How will you keep revenue coming in the door? How will you continue to pay your employees?  Your business continuity...

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One Differentiating Factor That Will Help You Choose the Right Project Manager 

When you’re hiring a project manager, the concept of risk management may not be at the top of your mind. This can be especially true if you’re still gathering proposals.   However, when your project manager skillfully employs risk management techniques throughout a project—such as an FF&E installation or an office and industrial move—your venture is much more likely to come in on time and on budget.   As a result, understanding your project manager’s approach to risk management can be an important differentiator in the vetting process.  In this article, we’ll share four questions you can use in interviews with project managers that will shed light on their approaches to risk management. These questions will help you understand who’s best equipped for the job, and who’s got...

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8 Critical Records Management Questions to Save You Money and Reduce Your Liability

In this era of privacy regulations, data breaches and consumer privacy concerns, your obligations to protect your customers’ data are more important than ever. Establishing a strong records management program is the first step toward ensuring that your company and employees handle your data properly. In this article, we’ll run you through eight critical questions that have the potential to change the way you think about your records management policies. First and foremost, this Q&A will help you fill any gaps in your current policies. Additionally, it has the potential to help your company save some serious money. If you’ve assumed in the past that...

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Are Your Document Destruction Policies Putting Your Company at Risk?

In today’s business climate, it’s more important than ever to protect sensitive data. If your company is required to meet the standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), you may already be aware of the importance of having solid records management and document destruction policies in place. However, even beyond the scope of these regulations, your company is still responsible for the data it handles on a daily basis, such as payroll records, personnel files, client lists, financial records and proprietary information. If you’re not managing your company’s records and...

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5 Things to Consider When Planning an Office Remodel or Relocation

There’s a reason you don’t want to choose just anyone when it comes to planning an office remodel or relocation. Any significant infrastructure project represents an investment on your company’s part. It’s not just in the money you allocate to purchase your furnishings and equipment. You’ll also invest the time and resources of your staff as well as commit to downtime in order to complete your relocation, renovation or expansion. With such a large outlay of assets on the line, preparing for success is crucial. As you search for moving and installation vendors to complete your project, there are five key areas you’ll likely want...

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4 Keys to Winning Your Next FF&E Design Project

Last edited: 9/24/2019 First impressions are everything—and the furniture, fixtures, and equipment in a hotel or restaurant set the tone for the entire customer experience. Whether you’re an interior design firm choosing the FF&E or a procurement professional who’s sourcing it, your work has a huge impact on your clients‘ businesses. It can also have a huge impact on your own. Between new construction and renovation projects on Guam, there are a number of great opportunities available.  At DeWitt Guam, we’ve worked with interior design firms, procurement professionals and directly with hotels and restaurants to ship, stage and install FF&E. In that time, we’ve seen what goes on behind the scenes of these projects.   If you’re looking to add more FF&E projects to...

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