The need to ensure and enhance office productivity is a reality that no business can afford to ignore. If you are running a business, you will want to lean away from the mundane and routine as a way of increasing productivity. Moreover, you will want to identify and eliminate factors weakening and extinguishing employee motivation, which ultimately dampens productivity.

Network data systems are becoming more complex by the day. With a tremendous profusion of new devices and operating systems, it’s harder and harder to develop a configuration that can handle it all. The challenge is made even more complex by the rigorous demands of the manufacturing world.

As a business owner, you know the importance of having good relationships with people in and outside your company. Your success relies on the ability to produce a high quality product or service to consumers and/or businesses. Your effectiveness at doing just that requires you to understand and prioritize your most important asset: customers.

Once customers are interested in your business, you must maintain that interest, and continue to provide quality customer service along with the product(s) they want or need from you. Doing that on a regular basis is what keeps them coming back.

Businesses of all sizes are looking for ways to improve productivity, reduce waste and lower costs. These lean concepts lead to streamlined operations and growth potential. Your business communication system is an important decision and an asset that allows you to carry out daily business, gain new customers and keep in touch with your team. 

We've put together the infographic below to help business owners and leaders as they look to adopt new communication technology. This information will help you to consider the outlook on VoIP technology versus landline or legacy systems as you evaluate your business phone needs. 

In today's business world, cost reduction and efficiency are priorities. The effort made to meet these goals is often a business function in itself. In this post, we discuss the idea of running a 'lean' business as a way to capitalize on opportunities to save and improve processes. This is referred to as a 'lean concepts' approach.

By adopting this approach, you can add time and money to your business, while at the same time eliminating things like waste, downtime and even added stress.

Since the first cell phone call was made in 1973, consumers have been clamoring for more and more technology that allows them to stay connected while on-the-go and from anywhere in the world. Whether for business use, personal use or just to have their hands on the latest and greatest new "toy," consumers and professionals alike will predictably line up for the next release of their favorite mobile device. 

In the infographic below, we give a timeline of mobile telephone technology. You'll learn about phone inventions and usage, as well as some expectations about the future growth of mobile technology globally and how usage has impacted our habits and behavior.

While VoIP technology is not in itself a new technology (commercial internet phones debuted in 1995), it was long seen as a solution for large enterprises. But today, smaller businesses are noticing the benefits they can realize with VoIP over a legacy phone system, including cost and reliability.

Utilizing business intelligence (BI) software can prove incredibly helpful for your business. As the company grows, BI software can give you a clear picture of data affecting business decisions and also implement control and measurement over your growing operations.

However, with multiple departments, a growing sales team and more associates coming on all the time, doing this can often prove difficult. This makes the right business intelligence software even more essential than ever before.

If there is one industry that requires flexibility in its processes, it is manufacturing. Now more than ever, the whole industry is going through changes that reflect the rapid advances in technology affecting every industry. Technology advances impact everything from new inventions coming to market, the level of competition you face, new regulatory issues and shorter product life cycle. 

The modern consumer market runs at a faster pace than ever before. For this reason, even owners and managers of small businesses are finding it difficult to directly manage every aspect of their company. Finding a technology partner to manage the IT functions of your business can be an efficient and cost-effective solution to your IT needs.