Strong financial planning has always been essential for business survival and growth. Businesses need clear visibility into operating costs, revenues, and profitability to measure progress and make better decisions to succeed long-term. Innovative financial solutions make it possible for you to execute on these goals. The right solution can help your business to...
Category: Blog – Laurie McCabe
We’re All in the Video Business Now: Pro Tips That Everyone Can Use
In the age of COVID-19, video conferencing has taken off. Companies that lacked or never used the video element of web conferencing started to do so. People who used to turn their cameras off for online meetings started turning them on. Zooming became a verb as more and more people are starring in, supporting, or playing bit roles in online meetings, classes, and e...
Mobilizing Technology for Effective Remote Working Environments
The practice of working from home has skyrocketed in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, as companies told their employees to stay home to comply with the widespread quarantine and social-distancing requirements. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have had to coordinate a sudden and massive migration to work from home (WFH) for almost all of their employees, using collaboration tools in ways that ...
How is Your Business Navigating to the Next Normal? Take this New SMB Group Survey
In the past three months, COVID-19 has disrupted any notion of business as usual. SMB Group felt that it was critical to provide immediate data to understand its impact on small and medium businesses (SMBs), and the steps they took at the outset to weather the storm.
Building a Collaboration Strategy for The Evolving Workplace
There’s no question that COVID-19 has forever changed the way small and medium businesses (SMBs) think about the “workplace”, shifting the concept from the physical world to a virtual one. Recently, Mona Abou-Sayed, Mitel’s VP of Collaboration and Applications, and I discussed this in a LinkedIn Live session, Building Cultur...
What Does an SMB Work-from-Home Laptop Look Like?
The practice of working from home has skyrocketed in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, as companies told their employees to stay home to comply with the widespread quarantine and social-distancing requirements. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have had to coordinate a sudden and massive migration to work from home (WFH) for almost all of their employees, using collaboration tools in ways that ...
What We Know: Preparing for the Next Normal
The adage that “the only constant is change” has never seemed more relevant than today. In the past three months, COVID-19 has disrupted any notion of “business as usual.” However, we were already in the midst of another, very transformative change before COVID-19. Whether you call it a digital revolution, digital transformation, the information era, or something else, its become obvious tha...
How to Approach Your ERP Selection During the Pandemic
ERP selection is always challenging, but even more so now. If you’re considering this big investment, tune into this session, How to Approach Your ERP Selection During the Pandemic on for insights and advice on ERP selection and implementation. More change has been foisted upon businesses in the last three ...
Building Culture and Collaboration for the Next Normal: Join Us on LinkedIn Live
Mark your calendars for what I’m sure will be a lively LinkedIn Live session on Tuesday, June 2! Register here, details are below. The trend towards work from home (WFM) had already been rising prior to COVID-19. According to Flexjobs, it rose 44% in the past 5 years. With COVID-19, ...
Zoho Bigin: A New Way for Small Businesses to Get Started with CRM
Small businesses almost always find it challenging to get started and productive with new business solutions—and CRM is no exception.