Leading an organisation might often feel like a never-ending line of decisions to be made. In today’s fast-paced marketplace, making the wrong choice, or making it too late, can have a negative impact on your success, your brand and your profitability. Gone are the days where companies had analysts reviewing every data source imaginable; 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…
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…
Working hard isn’t enough anymore. Working smart will get you a bit further towards your goal. But sometimes even this doesn’t always hit the mark anymore.
Industries used to focus on three main areas for excellence and growth: creating and developing their products in bigger, faster and cheaper ways. Expanding an organisation simply by gaining more contracts was the only way; volume was more important than anything else. This is what spurned the industrial revolution and what continues to enable industries…
Even in today’s super-tech world of gadgets, apps and devices, there are still some daily business tasks which just seem impossible, or too cumbersome, to perform without reverting to a desktop PC or notebook. Despite what glossy business magazines say about part-time bosses, most C-level officers can still only dream of the day when they…
The team at Blue Ocean Systems works closely with clients throughout the entire SAP Business One implementation cycle; from pre-sales to post implementation support. During this time, several reccurring questions arise from staff from various levels within small and medium sized enterprises. In this week’s blog, we set out to answer some of these insightful…
Blue Ocean Systems comprises a global partner network to provide specialised and customised enterprise solutions to small and medium sized companies. We do this in conjunction with our unique partner ecosystem of industry specialists around the world. In this series of blogs, we introduce you to some of our partners and the ways in which…
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle to justify many of their outgoing expenses, particularly when the return on investment is difficult to identify immediately. SAP Business One solutions often fall into the category of ‘nice to have but not necessary until we grow’ for many SMEs. However, this can often be a costly mistake…
