Whilst profit is a major focus for any organisation, it’s smaller and medium sized enterprises that are so much more reliant on generating and growing their margins to remain viable, particularly in challenging economic environments. It might be easy to assume, therefore, that they are more risk averse, or don’t make the same investments as their more…
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…
When you hear ‘innovation’ a large majority of business leaders are probably dreading what new changes are being brought in to disrupt the status quo they are comfortable and familiar with. The latest technological advancement, the best new productivity tool or the latest streamlined process might seem like the next in a long line of…
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…
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…
Your stock, or inventory, is made up of ‘goods and materials a business holds for the purpose of resale’ (wiki). These goods and materials making up your overall inventory can be in any form across the production life cycle and are divided into 3 categories.
You have a sales team who goes out in the world cold calling, following up leads and closing deals (hopefully). You have a marketing department who makes nice brochures for prospective clients, updates your website and strategises new ways to bring in more sales. You have an operations or production team who carries out the…
Running a small or medium sized enterprise (SME) brings with it plenty of challenges, particularly through turbulent economic times. New products, special offers and promises of business growth all provide tempting quick fixes to stay ahead of the competition. Add to that the expectations from customers for reduced costs, improved service and increased product choice…
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…
