Complying with regulations imposed on your business can be expensive and time-consuming, often threatening future growth and profitability. The law may require you to gather and track data, compile reports, or even change your business structure and practices entirely. Compliance is an industry in itself, with consultants and lawyers providing advice and counsel for business…
Operating with high overheads is one of the major impediments to growth facing small and medium-sized businesses. Regardless of productivity or profitability, a certain proportion of your revenue will automatically be given over to rent, utilities, administration and taxes. Even if you are able to optimise your business processes to provide better services at a…
Managing risk should be a priority for any company, regardless of size or industry sector. Most business owners and managers are aware of some of the potential threats to their productivity and revenue, but have not yet put a coherent structure in place for dealing with them. Risks need to be identified, evaluated and prioritised…
Pinpointing the exact steps your business needs to take to stay competitive can seem overwhelming. The last thing you want to do is put finite time and resources into activities that don’t lead to results. How can you ensure the policies set in place to keep up in a challenging market really work? Research As…
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Crowdsourcing is an organisational model in which a single person or business obtains access to goods and services, including ideas and money, from a large, open and often rapidly-changing group of people, usually via the internet. By dividing work between disparate participants, significant results can be achieved. Many businesses would probably not consider crowdsourcing a…
For a small or medium-sized business, gaining a large client that consistently makes orders and pays on time would seem like an obvious blessing. Being able to rely on a steady flow of work is reassuring, but there are also major downsides if one or two clients make up the majority of your revenue. The…
One method of achieving business growth is expanding your geographic reach. If your immediate market is saturated and new clients are thin on the ground, looking further afield might be the only option. Traditionally, this has meant opening new premises and the overheads that go along with that or trying to manage staff from afar,…
The Learning Process Over the course of the past three months, I have continued to study the basics of programming, developing skills essential to working in the IT industry. Gaining a solid foundation in languages such as HTML, SQL, and CSS3 allows me to contribute towards improving SwiftCase, as well as any other projects involving…
Drawing up a workflow to map out and organise your business processes may seem straightforward, but underestimating the level of accuracy and detail required could cause major problems after implementation. Carefully consider the following factors if you want to see positive productivity results and avoid headaches further down the line. It’s important to remember that…