Tag Archive | "business systems and processes"

9 Cool Tools to Manage Your Work Better as a Small Business Owner

A small business requires a lot of work in order to prove successful. You can use all the help you can get in order to manage the work and the employees better. Luckily for you, there are many useful tools available that will make your job much easier.

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How Product Development Really Works

I have seen this image a few times over my career in IT and to this day it is the most accurate description of how product development really works.

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The Secret World of Shadow Systems

The term Shadow System recalls to my mind James Bond movies’ SPECTRE organization. The truth is much more trivial. Shadow systems are those fantastic gothic cathedrals built with Excel which keep so many businesses running.

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Four Reasons Why People Love Excel and IT Departments Hate it

I love Excel, I think it’s pretty obvious if you have a look to my site I’m not alone, millions and millions of people around the world use it too and, more or less, love it.

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Why Business Plans Are B.S. For Small Business Owners

Once upon a time… Sam was worried about his electrical supply business, and rightly so. The initial burst of growth over the first three years of the business had halted in the fourth year and in the fifth his sales and profitability were now going backwards.

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Cooperating with the Cloud; The Basics of What to Know

The phenomenon of cloud computing has become a part of daily life across the globe. And while it is used by many people, few know what cloud computing is, how it affects them, the advantages and disadvantages and how it can spread cooperation between organizations and through the world.

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8 Principles of Data Protection And How They Affect You

Data protection has never been a more pressing issue than now. With many businesses collecting information in CRM databases, commercial and transactional databases, email addresses, etc, it’s important for business owners to understand their responsibilities towards data protection and security.

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Cloud Computing: Legal dos and don’ts

Cloud computing is the delivery of information technology services over the internet without the need for businesses to purchase or install software or run their own application and data servers. Applications are hosted in the data centers of the cloud computing provider, benefiting from massive economies of scale

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SME Businesses and Data Mining – Who Cares?

SME businesses in our region are the biggest employers and biggest tax contributors (source: ABS) and are the backbone of our economy. Over 80% of SME businesses use computer systems in some form to manage their business operations from book-keeping through to automated business equipment (ABS, 2009).

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Small Business Tips: Hardware & Business Operations

Articles often discuss how software is able to benefit your small business operations, but hardware plays just of an integral part.

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Why Do We Need Systems For Our Business?

To help answer this question imagine you supply a product to the market. When people want to contact support they send an email to support@yourbusiness.com.

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The Importance of Having Processes to Deal with Customers

When you have a business, you must consistently have a product that is good, a price that is competitive, and the right people to sell it, deliver it, and service it.

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Why Systems Focused Owners are better business builders than business starters

Last week we tried to give perspective to the idea that being the classic Market Focused entrepreneur isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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A Gold Medal Business Lesson from Jonny Moseley

I was at a customer appreciation event for a large telecommunications company in Beaver Creek last week. Jonny Moseley, 1998 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle skiing …

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Basic Contingency Planning Makes Sense

Contingency Planning and Business Continuity Plans can sound pretty scary to many people and are often only associated with large corporates and public sector bodies.

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