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Are You Living in the Past?

by Breezotoo

It is amazing to see so many businesses living in the past. Its
so easy to stay there too. No one likes change and so many
businesses are set up to help you stay right there. Staying
within this paradigm will hold you back from real business
success.

So, you tell me you're a 2 million or 20 million or even a 500
million dollar business, so why should you change anything?
You're pretty successful right? Maybe even a top business in your
community? Congratulations.

If you are not running the best systems available to you right
now your competitors are looking at them and when they have them
up and running your days of success are numbered. Have you got a
strategy to stay ahead of the pack?

Over the past twenty yeas the biggest businesses around the
world have made huge strides in productivity and business growth
through systems implementations. Software companies have grown
into huge organizations and the implementing consultants have
made a fortune. Lets check on that statement, ever hear the name
Bill Gates? Larry Elison? or even Hasso Plattner? Maybe not the
last one! Well, they represent Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. These
companies are vying to rule the systems on big business and
small.

If you are not a very large company you probably don't know much
about any of this. That's not OK.

So what do I mean about living in the past? Well your computer
programs are pretty old school. You're using the same accounting
package as your competitors, and its most probably not even an
updated version. If you know what CRM means but dont actually use
one, its generally a package that connects a number of sales folk
to a database of customer info, without any access to your
accounting or inventory management package, in the old school. It
generally helps the sales team plan and executes their strategy
for selling. You are old school because you have been suckered by
the IT consultants to integrate the stand alone pieces of
software into a system! You are old school if you think your
local IT development company could create these systems
specifically for you. You are old school because you pay a person
to manage your network and servers more than you pay your head
sales person.

So you say to me 'wonderful, but how can I ever compete with the
big guys?' What is the new paradigm? This is where things get
really interesting. You can compete and you can discover a new
paradigm. It won't cost you your first born either. Over the past
ten years or so there has been a quiet revolution taking place.
Software doesn't have to be owned and installed and managed by
your company. You do not have to create and maintain a half baked
IT department. It can be rented. You can actually rent an IT
department that compares with what the Fortune businesses have.
Originally these hosted services were called an ASP, or
Application Service Provider, now known as SaaS, or software as a
service. There are a collection of products you can subscribe to
and run your business with.

What does that mean?

Well unlike the biggest companies on earth who have spent more
than many countries entire defense budgets on these systems,
there are now systems available that emulate the biggest and the
best and the good news is you can afford to use them. These
systems can run every conceivable back office operation in your
business.

One of the biggest advantages companies implementing these
systems notice immediately is that their business processes
become simpler. They generally follow the software's best
practice and it works better than what they had in the first
place! The staff find them easier to use then the multi package,
multi spreadsheet approach. Work gets done faster, less mistakes,
more enjoyable work environment. But the most fantastic part is
that the real part of business, servicing the customers, takes
place seamlessly! Your customers are happier and do more
business. It is easier to do business with you.

So when you think it through, for a reasonable investment, which
could even be financed, you can have a system, which lowers your
current costs, improves sales, increases revenue, increase your
margins, by costing you less and being more productive. Which
ultimately means.. ta daaaa..your profit starts climbing.

And you thought you were as good as you ever would be? Move away
from good and move toward great, today.

Move to the future. Make way for change and learn to love it!

By <b<Graeme Nichol</b> President of <b>Arcturus Advisors.</b>
Please visit their website at <a target="_new"
href="http://www.arcturusadvisors.com">http://www.arcturusadvisors.com</a>.
Arcturus Advisors works with business leaders to implement
NetSuite Systems which close the gap between great strategies and
mediocre results.

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