Astro leader scoops prestigious award
Astro Technology Group is delighted to announce that Chief Executive, Steve Hodges, has been crowned Director of the Year at the highly prestigious Institute of Directors Awards 2020. Steve was triumphant in the SMB up to £5m turnover category for...
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Apprenticeships offer amazing opportunities, just ask Nathan Lee
National Apprenticeship Week 2020 – Nathan Lee Today sees the start of National Apprenticeship Week and there are almost 400 events celebrating apprenticeships around England. These include: open days, award presentations and engagements with schools and colleges. I started...
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Lightning – can we really protect against it?
Many of us in the British Isles witnessed a spectacular display of lightning during what meteorologists referred to as the mother of all storms. Headlines reporting up 20,000 lightning strikes with some areas experiencing a month’s rainfall in one...
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Home network devices: friend or foe?
Home network devices: friend or foe? Our home maybe our castle, but just how safe are we with our home network devices spying on us? This week’s BBCs Panorama – Hacked: Smart Home Secrets – discussed the risk many...
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BT, The Hodge and the Rugby Legend
BT, The Hodge and the Rugby Legend Meeting a legend and being delighted, thank you BT for a fun morning, and for listening. By Steve Hodges It isn’t every day I get a call from my BT account team....
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What can we do to help our healthcare professionals?
What can we do to help our healthcare professionals? Healthcare professionals need more effective use of IT and so do their customers. I rarely watch TV but by chance I walked in part way through a very interesting ITV...
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Whether Sailing the High Seas or the Economic Ocean, don’t lose sight of your goals
Whether Sailing the High Seas or the Economic Ocean, don’t lose sight of your goals Boulogne or Bust, at sea with the Astro team My elder daughter is a big Knight Rider fan. She has watched every episode of...
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Unplanned wireless network – safety in numbers? I don’t think so.
Unplanned wireless network – safety in numbers? I don’t think so. To plan or not to plan, that is the question! Planning your wireless network does cost, but not as much as not planning it! Sometime back, I read...
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Excellent Customer Service – is it really such a strain?
Excellent Customer Service – is it really such a strain? Or am I missing the point about customer service? I have written several times before on the subject of customer service. It is something that we focus on at...
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Who pressed the nation’s “it’s too difficult button”?
Who pressed the nation’s “it’s too difficult button”? Is it OK to just surrender to the Beast from the East? By Steve Hodges Firstly, let me be clear this blog is not targeted at the unfortunate people who have...
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