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Key Considerations for Small Businesses: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

Integration of Technology: Streamlining Operations Incorporating technology into your business operations significantly enhances efficiency. Implement customer relationship management (CRM) systems, point-of-sale (POS) solutions, and other digital tools to streamline processes and minimize errors.

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Things to consider when starting your own trucking company

Strategy Driven

Do you want to operate locally, regionally, or nationally? Operating regionally or nationally will require more capital and a larger staff. You will need to have enough capital to cover the cost of purchasing equipment, hiring staff, and other operational costs. Determine the scope. Finalize your business plan.

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Turning Your Catering Biz Into A Really Dishy Proposition

Strategy Driven

If you are just starting off on a freelance venture and trying out cooking for small events around you, make sure that you have all the licenses you need for a catering business. Unfortunately, many of these people keep building without realizing that they are going to need to be licensed to start charging people money for their services.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley. As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM. Among other reasons, companies build CRM systems to avoid contacts, histories, and networks of relationships leaving the company together with the salesperson. Propagate intelligence and insights.

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What Knowledge Workers Stand to Gain from Automation

Harvard Business Review

Yet, more than 50 years after Peter Drucker devised the term knowledge worker, it is quite disappointing to peer inside the operations of any large organization and see how little of their time knowledge workers actually spend on higher-order thinking tasks. The Future of Operations. No underlying systems programming logic is touched.