Think back to a time when your organisation was still in its early days – what would you have told yourself, and others at that time, knowing what you know now? How would years of wisdom, experience, success and failure changed what you did? Would you have taken more risks? Would you have invested more…
For those of you who have been in business for some time it might seem that thinking innovatively is a luxury you just don’t have the time, energy or resources for; instead your days are spent putting out fires and following the same trusted processes day after day. Sound familiar?
No one likes a drama, especially in business. Your operation needs to run smoothly, quickly and underpin your profits; otherwise why are you in business? SAP HANA promises drama; but only the best. The best way to curate your data, the best way to gain accurate insights into your organisation, the best kind of analytics…
What does a ‘growing’ company mean to you and your industry? More staff? More machinery? More manufacturing? More warehouses? More locations? Definitely more sales and more customers! But have you ever considered that while all of the above are inevitable for a growing business, that the most challenging element might be (literally) staring you in…
Picture this. A company starts out small, possibly with even fewer than 10 employees. At this stage, the operations of a business keep everyone busy, getting products out to the market is key to sustaining the growth. Functions such as finance, sales and marketing and human resources might be handled by the same person or…
They all started there – in that startup phase where the CEO was also the operations manager, the production manager, the sales and marketing guy, the hirer and firer, the chief problem solver. They knew everything about the organisation because it was their concept, their baby and they knew every contact, every sale, every team…
This may sound familiar to many of you: each day begins with an influx of emails to your Blackberry / iPhone / Smartphone device and before you’ve even left home you’ve downloaded several attachments full of facts, figures and colourful charts from numerous departments telling you the average call volume, the number of emails received…
Ensuring your company manages change and risk effectively can be tricky: Change and risk are often mutually exclusive in our organisations; you can’t embrace risk without some form of change taking place, and you can’t implement risk-free change. So what should you do? Stay safe and never change? Or, jump into risky situations whenever they…
SAP HANA is revolutionising the way companies use predictive analytics to make better decisions on petabytes of Big Data. Companies are also leveraging the integration between SAP HANA and their SAP CRM.
Big Data – this latest buzz term is either causing you pain already or you haven’t been affected (yet). Organisations of all sizes need to prepare themselves for the inevitable: manage big data effectively now, or be consumed by it sooner than you think.
