Companies frequently encounter the need for handling employee churn in our rapidly changing world. What are some of the steps to follow to manage employees when they are moving between jobs? What can set your business apart from others to prevent employee churn? First, always have a back up plan. At some point, employees will leave, move up or down, express dissatisfaction in their position, or need to be let go. Ensure that your knowledge of the company encompasses at least part of what … [Read more...]
Optimization Needs for Cloud Spending = Opportunity
As businesses move more of their applications and other tools to be cloud-based, the need for cloud expertise is expanding. This creates opportunity and challenge in many ways due to the newly fundamental need for companies to start or continue working from the cloud. Currently, virtual and remote workers are the biggest cause of the IT industry's need towards an optimization of cloud spending. However, the re-allocation of existing budgets has to be taken into account for these new … [Read more...]
Skype for Business Retiring End of July: What Does This Mean for You?
Microsoft's Skype for Business Online service is retiring end of July, 2021. The company recommends anyone using that platform, move to their Teams product/service. Teams has been consistently growing bigger as the weeks go by, organically replacing any needs for the older platform. As we have all noticed, the remote workforce explosion has pushed the need for group and individual IM usage. In-person meetings are quickly becoming a thing of the past, with company and personal communications … [Read more...]
Three Keys to Data-Driven Business Agility
Enterprises that prioritize agility have been quicker to embrace digital transformation, giving them the ability to swiftly make adjustments to optimize customer experiences. To compete with today’s fast-paced changes, data-driven business agility is the new standard. Agility as the key to success, and even survivability, is nothing new. Stop to consider the brief moment that Netflix was mailing out DVDs. They seamlessly transitioned to streaming, while Blockbuster seemed like a dinosaur with … [Read more...]
4 Positive Ways Remote Working Benefits All Parts Of Our Business Culture
Since the onset of our culture's experience with the current COVID-19 phenomenon, more and more companies have chosen to keep their workers at home. Before the virus and its effects, hit so many in the whole of our workforce, remote working was not nearly as common. Now, there are seemingly endless positive benefits for employers to continue on this path, and to increase their efforts geared towards ramping up the process. Here are four of the most valid reasons, and how they relate to … [Read more...]
The Impact of Failing to Embrace Business Agility
Many enterprises fail to realize that they’ve lost their innovative approach — that they’ve become an organization that no longer prioritizes business agility. It doesn’t happen overnight; it creeps in as competitors introduce disruptive technology while you delay it for seemingly good reasons. Take a look at some of the common symptoms of an enterprise that’s lost its focus on business agility, and see if it describes your workplace: Swamped in Coding Tasks: Your department can’t keep up … [Read more...]
Five Common Challenges to Business Agility
With the focus on customer experience and the need to increasingly personalize customer interactions, the ability to quickly adapt and change to meet client demands is a priority. Yet business agility often doesn’t come easily. A work execution platform, designed to plan and then manage and automate work, is a solution that applies to many of the most common bottlenecks that pose a challenge to business agility. Here are five places where processes often get stuck, and the ways in which a work … [Read more...]