Workflow

How to Stop Email Interrupting You

Front Office Box

Image via Wikipedia Email drives my workflow, instead of interrupting it, so I save time and get more things done. We solved the problem with it hurting our productivity and saved hours every day. Is Email a problem for you? Is it constantly interrupting you with incoming messages which need something done, but not necessarily [...]

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Planning and Task Management for Getting Things Done

Front Office Box

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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Making Email a Business Process

Front Office Box

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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Escaping From Email Inbox and Getting Things Done

Front Office Box

Do you find yourself prisoner to your email app? Most people do. It’s intrusive, demanding, and the perfect excuse for procrastination. It’s also mostly garbage, or mine is at least. But there are alternatives for anybody determined to break it’s hold. In this post Matthew May describes new software which helps us get things done. [...]

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Email Isn’t a Business System

CRM

“What’s That” you may say. “The business world goes around on email”. And of course it does, but that makes it technology which displaces paper (until somebody prints it) and paper certainly isn’t a business system – just a technology. The reason I bring this up is so many people mistake a technology with the [...]

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But How Do I Use Front Office Box?

Front Office Box

“Our Getting Started tutorial suggests new users make a start with a simple ToDo list.  It only takes a couple of minutes and the user easily learns the main functions through this simple set up”. This question needs to get asked more often, because there are people who sign up for an account but never [...]

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The Importance of Process in any Business

Front Office Box

Yesterday we posted an article – The Front Office Process – From First Call to Referral This follows up that item with an explanation of the importance of “process” to any business, regardless of size or business activity. Many will have read Re-Engineering the Corporation – Hammer and Champy’s seminal work, originally published in the [...]

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Why Less CRM is More Value

CRM

CRM seems to be a good place to be, at least on first glance. Every business needs it, few have got something that really works, it’s a natural application for cloud computing and it doesn’t cost the earth to build.

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