Josh Yeager, COO, Author at HighGear

Importance of Auditing in a Financial Services Firm

Last updated Jun 13, 2023

A colleague of ours recently remarked on their time in the pharmaceutical industry saying, “the worst thing you could hear was your name being paged to report to Conference Room A.” At this company, Conference Room A was perpetually reserved for the FDA....

Workflow Management Software – Why Do You Need It?

Last updated Jan 29, 2024

Workflow is an abstract representation of how work moves through an organization, across departments or from team member to team member. It can also be defined by a sequence of actions and controls that route tasks and artifacts through business processes. Companies...

Crossing the digital transformation divide: overcoming embedded manual processes

Last updated Nov 3, 2022

At your place of work, does it feel like your workflow processes are working for you, or are you working for them? If workflows require extra steps because of counter-intuitive manual systems, then the answer might be that you are working for your processes, not the...

How Swift Systems used HighGear to pass their audits

Last updated Dec 7, 2020

When we first began to offer HighGear in the cloud, we also owned a data center operator, and managed services provider called Swift Systems. That team had built a robust set of compliance policies and controls originally based on the NIST 800-53 standards,...

Addressing the Challenges of a Remote Workforce

Last updated Jun 25, 2020

Written by Josh Yeager, HighGear COO More than half of all American workers worked remotely at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many still are. This sudden shift caused difficulties ranging from over-stretched IT systems to communication challenges to...