The latest from the blog

Negotiating your company’s shared drive can sometimes resemble a trip through the Amazon. You know there’s some useful and interesting stuff in there but you can’t see it through all the trees and vines. If a shared drive is chaotic mess, with files belonging to staff that have long since moved on, and a bunch … Continued

More companies plan to send staff overseas this year and not surprisingly, Australia is one of the top destinations. Mercer recently released the Worldwide International Assignments Policies and Practices report which surveyed 750 multinational companies about their global mobility schemes. Over 70 per cent said they expected to increase short-term assignments in 2013 and 55 … Continued

If you’ve been following Grace Information Management’s News section in recent weeks, you will know that plans are underway to make passwords a thing of the past. However, until technology catches up with cybercriminals, passwords remain the best way to protect your personal and business privacy and data. Think of a password like the key … Continued

Whether we want to admit it or not, many of us are addicted to our smart phones and can’t go past the lure of a good app. Some are time-wasters while others make life that little bit easier. Fortunately, apps about moving house fall into the latter category. Here are some of the best apps … Continued

In last week’s post we looked at multi-factor and two-step authentication as ways of supporting the humble password in online security systems. Technology experts are always looking for new ways to rid us of passwords completely. In the future, it is likely we will see more advanced multi-factor authentication systems with passwords being enhanced by … Continued

Let’s face it, we all hate them. Passwords have become the bane of our modern existence. With so many devices, programs and social platforms that need passwords, most people end up inevitably using versions of the same ones, typing them into a spreadsheet or worse leaving scraps of paper around the house just to remember … Continued

For the second year running Grace has been awarded the FIDI Academy Gold Supporter Award. The Gold award is the top tier and demonstrates our investment in training through FIDI’s training section, FIDI Academy. Points are awarded for each Academy training session attended by a Grace employee. To get to Gold a company needs to … Continued

Move over two bedroom apartments, granny flats are the new economical housing option for Sydneysiders, and they’ve undergone a revamp. Today’s granny flats are sleek, stylish and sophisticated thanks to a group of Australian architects, developers and builders who have recently launched the ‘Module ’ as a solution to Sydney’s housing crisis. “Housing crisis in … Continued

Many child and family psychologists believe moving house can be as stressful for children as death and divorce. In an interview with Domain, leading child psychologist and author, Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg, says he has counselled many children facing moves. “While moving can be a time for some great new things — like your own room … Continued

Simply capturing and storing information can be a waste of time and money if that information is not treated – read ‘used’ – as an asset, according to an article on technology website TechTarget.com “Traditionally, information was deployed for a transaction, then mentally discarded; today, information management is becoming the competitive edge for businesses in creating … Continued