Modern Workplace & Hybrid Working at Mind

Situation Mind, the National Charity, were running an on-premise server estate, associated IT Infrastructure and end user hardware that was reaching the end of its life. They were also undertaking a large office move to a modern workplace, located within the Cancer Research UK Head Office in Stratford. They asked Smartdesc to seize this opportunity…

Reduce cost & Simplify your IT with Smartdesc

Reduce Cost & Simplify your IT

Welcome to the Smartdesc December newsletter. We are NCVO-approved IT experts specialising in the charity sector, enabling nonprofits to achieve more with technology and modern ways of working. This month we focus on how charities can simplify and consolidate their IT infrastructure, reduce costs and use technology to enable better hybrid working. We recently migrated the national…

Hybrid Workforce

Establishing a high-performance hybrid workforce

Co-founder of Smartdesc, Adam Monks, discusses how charities can use the momentum of 2020 and 2021 to fully embed a high-performance hybrid workforce with our friends at Hart Square. Challenge The hybrid workforce is here to stay. Truly establishing a high-performing hybrid workforce, through digital enablement, is a prerequisite to digital transformation ambitions. Staff need…

Technology and Communications for Charities

Back to the office? How charities can blend technologies to serve remote and office based staff [VIDEO]

Adam Monks, Co-Founder and Director at Smartdesc – Charity IT specialists – discusses how charities and non-profit organisations are planning their communications technology to support a blend of office-based and home-based workers. View the full interview: Or read the following summary:   What technologies have worked well during lockdown? Teams, Zoom and online project management…

Charity IT after lockdown

Embedding true Hybrid Working

What will IT for charities look like as lockdown eases? When the sudden shift to remote working happened, charities had to react fast to enormous changes to their way of working, almost overnight.  If you haven’t already, have a look at some examples of good practice on our ‘IT for Charities – Remote Working in…