As the IT world transitions from distributed contributing to internet-based systems, getting the right IT people has gotten more critical, and more difficult.
Recently, a construction firm in Northern Canada devised an iconically Canadian connectivity solution for their cloud-based time card application. According to George Goodall, senior analyst for London, Ont.-based Info-Tech Research, all the data was consolidated onto a laptop, then once a week somebody would drive south for an hour or two to the nearest Tim Horton's and use the wifi there to upload the data into the cloud.