Recession Proofing Technology

Keeping high priority cost savings initiatives out of the too hard basket.

The biggest problem with this mindset it that sooner or later when the economy does turnaround, your business needs to be fit enough to survive the feeding frenzy that will ensue. It may be attractive to cut suppliers or reduce your headcount now but what does that do for your operational effectiveness. Is your business really capable of reacting to a spike in demand?

Putting your inhouse IT team to better use…

The support and development packs are a metaphorical panadol for an IT headache that you no longer need to have. By removing the burden of maintenance you plan your resources more effectively or reduce the associated overheads associated with such a large team

PHP and .NET is brought closer together

The uptake for this product is thought to be high as customers welcome the breakdown in barriers associated with the long running battle between the Microsoft .NET framework and the open source community.

Automate or Perish!

Could we be at such a point in the ‘information age’ that if we haven’t automated your business by now, then you stand to fade away into the background wondering what happened.?

Grow in a slowdown and reduce your headcount.

Whether this is part of your cost reduction strategy or not Business Process Automation is an important component in creating a leaner meaner fighting machine to weather the Recession storm that is now upon us and forecast to deepen.

How understanding your business rules can improve your profitablity

Rules are everywhere. In fact a good business is valued or accessed on its systems, policies and procedures. These can also be known as business rules.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Another successful implementation for us and this time the customer is…. US! You know the old adage about plumbers with leaky taps, well our own CRM was a long time coming but well and truely worth the wait. I have used a number of CRM’s in my Sales career including the usual suspects such as [...]

Sales Force Automation as a recession proofing strategy

Apologies for using the dreaded ‘R’ word but since the mainstream media seems hell bent on using it, I figure a niche blog isn’t going to make that much difference.
So, I attended a seminar during the week on recession proof marketing. The key lessons from this event was that that regardless of whether you thing [...]