Every time I hear sales management consultants say that they teach "best practices," I roll my eyes. The simple truth: the "best practices" for one company can be "worst practices" for another. In most cases, "best practices" are taken from the history...
Smart information technology IT strategies can reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses SMBs reduce expenses. With employee awareness and participation, even the busiest SMB can adopt simple "green" strategies that require little to no additional equipment or labor expenditures. View this page...
To keep pace in an increasingly competitive world, your business needs to run as efficiently as possible. Efficiency is even more important for small and medium-sized businesses because your resources are limited compared to large global companies. Here are 10 tips for using network technology to help your...
Zack Schuler is the CEO and founder of CalNet Technologies, an IT solutions firm that services small and medium-sized businesses. Schuler discusses his company's unique cultural emphasis on responsiveness and customer service, which has been achieved in large part as a result of his innovative employee award programs.
One of the many features that distinguish a Small To Medium Business SMB from a large enterprise is its number of employees. A business that is considered small employs less than 100 people; a medium size business is one having between 100 and 999 employees. A large enterprise, including all...
Many small and midsize businesses rely on mobile workers. The challenge is keeping them connected and productive away from the office. In this new Cisco BizWiseTV video, "Work From Anywhere," mobility consultant Phil Montero talks about the need for a smart mobility strategy to address the three key issues most...
Keeping employees mobile is a fact of business for many small and midsize companies. The challenge is to keep them connected, productive and collaborating when they're away from the central office. The Cisco Mobility Resource Center helps SMBs resolve their mobile connectivity challenges. The Resource Center offers videos, downloads, podcasts...
This Cisco-commissioned Forrester Research study combines survey data from six countries to quantify how unified communications affect the small and medium-size business sector. Focused on Manufacturing, the study reveals that with unified communications: SMBs improve responsiveness to customers; employees collaborate effectively; time to resolve problems decreases; approval process time...
This Cisco-commissioned Forrester Research study combines survey data from six countries to quantify how unified communications affect the small and medium-size business sector. Focused on Financial Services, the study reveals that with unified communications: SMBs improve responsiveness to customers; employees collaborate effectively; time to resolve problems decreases; approval process time...
Business Owners or Managers are often so preoccupied with day to day immediate issues in their business they lose sight of their ultimate objectives. Making a Strategic Plan is an exciting exercise, and gets the adrenaline going! It should be visionary, conceptual and directional, and because it must be realistic...
The value of business-to-business integration is equally beneficial for large and small companies. Unfortunately, the complexity and costs of many forms of integration have created barriers for small to medium sized businesses trying to integrate with their suppliers, customers, carriers, etc. Fortunately, advances in technology have dramatically lowered...
With many business owners wanting to know how to survive their businesses in this competitive world. The need for necessary training is getting critical and vital. Some of the multi-national corporations, small and medium enterprises, and one-man operated businesses such as internet marketer are beginning to realize the importance of...
One of the key problems SMBs (Small and Medium-Sized Businesses) face is trying to use the "One-size fits all" offerings of many current technology products on the market. Challenges that need to be solved on a corporate or enterprise level. Product managers that change that focus and respond specifically to...
Decisions that will have a significant impact on the future of the business - both long term and short term - are strategic. Those decisions which you make on a regular basis quite easily, even though sometimes there is no clear or immediate answer, are operational decisions. Working with many...
Publicly-owned Small and Medium Businesses SMBs are subject to the same laws and regulatory mandates that their large counterparts are. This webinar covers some of the common challenges faced by such companies in developing internal controls and points out the classes of internal controls to consider, as well as the...
Learn how to get your entire organization working on the critical tasks that will move your business forward. Download the complimentary eGuide, "Driving Success: The Incredible Power of Company-wide Goal Alignment" today. Part of the SuccessFactors HR Insider Series -- and specifically written for small and mid-sized...
Many business owners wanted to know how to survive their businesses in this competitive world. The need for necessary training is getting critical and vital. Some of the multi-national corporations, small and medium enterprises, and one-man operated businesses such as internet marketer are beginning to realize the importance of time...
How are small and midsize businesses putting mobile technology solutions to the most productive use? Find out with this new, exclusive bMighty Research Report. Gain critical insights into how other SMBs are deploying mobile and wireless technology to keep mobile workers connected. Learn how the appropriate solution can promote greater...
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for his analysis of markets with asymmetric information, Joseph Stiglitz wrote Globalization and its Discontents, which has been translated into 35 languages and sold more than 1 million copies. Read this case study for 5 questions posed to Stiglitz on global...
A glaring omission in yesterday's 15 fabulous business freebies roundup: Spiceworks IT Desktop. Designed for small and medium businesses, this impressive tool offers network inventory, monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting, along with a complete IT help desk. Similarly equipped commercial packages can easily cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.The browser-based program provides tracking for up to...
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