 If your company is like most successful
small businesses, it didn't start out life with sophisticated computer
systems. It probably started
with a PC, some "off-the-shelf" software purchased to
manage tasks like accounting, word-processing, inventory management,
etc. Over time, other systems were added and kluged together to
automate even more critical business tasks. Who knows? By now you
may have invested in a server(s) and office network and other technology.
Over time, this natural process of bringing on more technology
and software to improve the business has morphed into a hodge-podge
of cobbled together software applications, spreadsheets, and databases
- they all work (kind of), but they just don't work all that well
together:
Accounting
is managed in one application; Inventory in another; Payroll in
yet another (if not outsourced) and on and on.
Applications
don't "share" the same data so employee productivity and company
efficiency suffer.
Prospect
requests are not centralized.
Sales
management tracking is more a wish than fact.
Inaccurate
data is producing slow responses to customer requests, chaotic sales
processing, and unreliable reports.
Net Result = your company's
full potential is being compromised.
Couple these in-house issues with an out-of-date website, and it's
no wonder realizing the full potential of what the smart use of
technology can do to truly leverage the effectiveness and profitability
always feels "just around the corner."
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