Remote Working & Effective Teams.
With remote working at an all-time high due to Covid-19 and potential employment law changes for employees to be able to work from home more, you will need to ensure you are successfully managing your teams - there is a lot of effort that goes into a remote team and producing great results. We wanted to share with you [...]
Cyber Essentials And Cyber Essentials PLUS
Back in January, we were granted our Cyber Essentials certificate which is a scheme that was introduced by the Government to ensure the protection of data and for companies to understand how the data can be used, secured and compromised. The Cyber Essentials certificate ensures that data is protected from common cyber threats online. There are two badges that [...]
IT Strategy & Business Growth.
If your goal is to achieve business growth over the next year you will likely be combining a variety of strategies to ensure this success. Your IT strategy should not be overlooked! During your business growth your operational processes, marketing techniques and team structure will change during this time. IT is frequently an area that is overlooked when planning [...]
COVID-19 IT Support Update
WE ARE HERE FOR YOU. J C Designs has been providing IT support and custom software for over 40 years from dial-up internet days and before but we have never seen anything like this, however we have a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw on, of course the immediate effect has been increase in calls from clients to [...]
COVID-19 And Working From Home
WORKING FROM HOME – ARE YOU READY? With the government now officially declaring COVID-19 as a Pandemic, the possibility that your workforce may need the ability to work from home or a secure, isolated location, is a very real possibility. VPN's (Virtual Private Networks) allow businesses to use their existing Internet connections for secure connection to remote site and [...]
Work Experiece Opportunities At JCD
“As has been our tradition to offer support for bright young things to get work experience in a real company; we have offered Shahzad Qureshi work experience with JC Designs to observe and get a feel for working in a fast-paced IT company that is at the forefront of both technical support and development". Caroline Edney-Burchell, Commercial Director. Q&A [...]
New Software Developer Joins The JCD Team
Another week, another new recruit!! Michael joins the JC Designs team permanently as Software Developer after spending a month with us on a trial basis. He is an experienced IT professional who has previously worked for firms such as EY & DHL. He has recently passed the Microsoft development certification for C# and ASP.NET MVC and enjoys working with [...]
JC Designs Secure Cyber Essentials Certificate
We are very pleased to announce that we have been granted a Cyber Essentials certificate, this is a significant step forward for JC designs. What is Cyber essentials? Cyber Essentials helps us to guard against the most common cyber threats and shows our commitment to cyber security. To gain the Cyber Security Essentials certificate there are 5 technical controls [...]
A View Into The Future Of Remote Assistance!
Sometimes remote assistance support can be challenging without seeing what the customer is seeing and leave the customer feeling frustrated as they do not know or understand the technical jargon. At J C Designs we are always looking for innovative ways to assist our clients, with the latest technology, to ease the support process. That’s why we are so [...]
IT Systems Support Technician Role Filled.
Welcome Simon! With our IT Systems Support Technician position filled, by Simon, we are heading to the end of 2019 with a strong team to help with our new and on-going Clients. The last few months feel like a bit of a whirlwind but we are extemely happy to have such an experienced and wonderful team to help us tackle whatever [...]