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How To Manage Your Business Mashup

How do you manage your business software and services on the Internet? With applications and connections spread across tens of sites it’s easy to get lost in a muddle. We manage our business combination of software and services using a front page in Front Office Box. What’s in it? Planning and operations management (in FOB [...]

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Now Everybody Has a Front Office

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Front Office is rapidly becoming a modern generic term. Everybody seems to be recognising the need to have a Front Office, but I wonder if they’ve done the extra thinking about processes and systems. Without the right philosophy and tools any Front Office is nothing more than a new name for the typical call centre, [...]

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Business Planning for Entrepreneurs and Start Ups

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Planning ways a business will operate requires a vision, strategy, objectives and tactics – where are you going with it, how will you get there, and how will you keep on course? It also needs a template for the process, milestones, checklists and schedules to help you organise your thoughts. For most small businesses, planning [...]

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Planning and Task Management for Getting Things Done

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Our Planning and Task Management software could be just what you need if you find people forgetting to do things, or struggle to keep everybody in the loop with email and shared calendars, If those project management systems are more complicated and expensive than you need for your planning and task management, but you still [...]

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Getting It Right With Checklists

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CheckLists have been helping us organise our thoughts since te beginning of time and despite all the technological innovations they remain fundamental to the way we get things done. For a simple explanation of the power of check lists with review process take a few minutes to read Mathew E May’s How To Get Things [...]

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Making Email a Business Process

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Email is a pain in the rear! Thanks to Gmail‘s excellent SPAM management my inbox is only full of junk, but it’s still junk, just like yours I guess. By junk I don’t mean completely useless – it just feels like junk because I’m trying to get things done and that stuff keeps interrupting me. [...]

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The Difference Between Small Business and Big Business

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What’s the difference between a big business and a small business? Long time ago, a CEO explained to me the only difference between big business and small business was the number of 0s after the number. At the time his concept seemed to make sense, but that was 40 years ago. It seems to me [...]

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Get a Plan for Planning 2010

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The start of the year 2010 and it’s time for planning. It just sort of feels right at this time of year, and there’s no end of blog articles reminding us. The problem is there’s too much motivation and not enough management in most of the self improvement stuff. Maybe because I’m British (?) the [...]

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Is Your Business Joined Up

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Is your business joined up? Daft question really because smaller businesses have to be joined up. That’s the only way they can work. The question would be better as are your systems joined up? And that’s a different matter. Does your system seamlessly progress from suspect to cash? Or do you have to fill in [...]

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How l Stopped Email Wasting My Time

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But I’ve found an answer which suits me just fine, and has revolutionised my approach to work. Now there’s more focus on the job on hand, and I get to finish things I start. Is Email a stone around your neck, getting in your way and stopping you doing the important things? If so you [...]

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