New Blog for a New Site and the Advantage of Small Business
October 18, 2010
Welcome to the new site and it's new blog. We will see how this goes and how our customers prefer to use the customer portal. In the meantime I hope you find this blog useful.
Right now I would like to talk about the advantage of being a small business. Small businesses have all sort of factors working against them like access to finance, no economies of scale so everything costs more and less experts on hand for all different needs a business has to operate. (Of course you can always get consultants like us to help you out there).
But perhaps you shouldn't feel so bad. IBM, giant of the IT industry, interviewed 1,130 enterprise CEO’s in 45 countries and 32 industries in the IBM Global 2010 CEO Study. What they found was large organisations are "bombarded by change, and many are struggling to keep up". 80% see significant changes ahead, but especially significant is the gap between expected change and the ability to manage it has almost tripled since the last study in 2006.
The future at present is showing signs of significantly impacting how corporates operates as the market changes. As a result, "Nearly all CEOs are adapting their business models, two-thirds are implementing extensive innovations.
You might be thinking where is the good news for small business in all that. Well, whereas all this change represents significant upheaval for bigger business, the small business has agility on its side. Small businesses are best positioned to react quickly to a changing marketplace - especially a marketplace that has grown tired of the insensitivity of big business. There are real opportunities for business who can genuinely engage their customers.
Interestingly, after encouraging our small business customers to consider collaborative environments for some time, we know see CEOs seeking the same ideas for big business. The IBM study states "more than 40 percent are changing their enterprise models to be more collaborative."
Collaborative environments can help small businesses to get work done wherever they are; at home, on the road or in the office. Also they can be used to work with customers rather than for customers, strengthening business relationships into the sense of partnerships.
We use a collaboration system in our business so our consultants can work together on solutions and we use it for our customers so they are engaged in the work we are doing for them. It gives transparency to our work just as if we were an employee - at any time our customer can come up and look over our shoulder and see what we're up to. Sure this adds pressure for us but it adds a great sense of relief and understanding for our customers. They can see they are receiving value for money in our efforts and hopefully they feel we are an integral part of their business.
In the future, for many small businesses this will be the only way to do business.
Right now I would like to talk about the advantage of being a small business. Small businesses have all sort of factors working against them like access to finance, no economies of scale so everything costs more and less experts on hand for all different needs a business has to operate. (Of course you can always get consultants like us to help you out there).
But perhaps you shouldn't feel so bad. IBM, giant of the IT industry, interviewed 1,130 enterprise CEO’s in 45 countries and 32 industries in the IBM Global 2010 CEO Study. What they found was large organisations are "bombarded by change, and many are struggling to keep up". 80% see significant changes ahead, but especially significant is the gap between expected change and the ability to manage it has almost tripled since the last study in 2006.
The future at present is showing signs of significantly impacting how corporates operates as the market changes. As a result, "Nearly all CEOs are adapting their business models, two-thirds are implementing extensive innovations.
You might be thinking where is the good news for small business in all that. Well, whereas all this change represents significant upheaval for bigger business, the small business has agility on its side. Small businesses are best positioned to react quickly to a changing marketplace - especially a marketplace that has grown tired of the insensitivity of big business. There are real opportunities for business who can genuinely engage their customers.
Interestingly, after encouraging our small business customers to consider collaborative environments for some time, we know see CEOs seeking the same ideas for big business. The IBM study states "more than 40 percent are changing their enterprise models to be more collaborative."
Collaborative environments can help small businesses to get work done wherever they are; at home, on the road or in the office. Also they can be used to work with customers rather than for customers, strengthening business relationships into the sense of partnerships.
We use a collaboration system in our business so our consultants can work together on solutions and we use it for our customers so they are engaged in the work we are doing for them. It gives transparency to our work just as if we were an employee - at any time our customer can come up and look over our shoulder and see what we're up to. Sure this adds pressure for us but it adds a great sense of relief and understanding for our customers. They can see they are receiving value for money in our efforts and hopefully they feel we are an integral part of their business.
In the future, for many small businesses this will be the only way to do business.
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