As companies seek to regain some of the ground they lost in the economic crisis, many are finding a need to update their software. According to Forrester Research, we should see a 7.1% increase in IT purchases this year. That’s on top of the increase we saw in 2010. A great number of businesses are …
While the economy is improving somewhat, leading economists are predicting that it’s going to be a long, slow turn around. On top of that, increased interest rates and inflation are expected to a have a significant effect on businesses even in the next year to two years. Practically, this means that employees are, justifiably, going …
As promised, this blog will take a deeper look at what process re-engineering actually consists of. Once again, process re-engineering is the practice of reviewing a business’s current processes, evaluating whether these processes are as effective and efficient as possible, and re-engineering them as necessary to achieve optimum performance. The first step in re-engineering is …
Oftentimes when a company is working with software that is inefficient, or not adequate for their purposes, they will create processes to work around its shortcomings. They make improvements to the system they already have, making it as usable as possible. In turn, they are subject to thinking that their operation is efficient because they …