Tag Archives: Business Process

Running Your Business From The Cloud – Google+

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Are You Running Your Business From Anywhere?

If I ever were impressed with a blog post, this is one them.  This article from Annie Pilon at Small Business Trends is a real winner.  She really takes a holistic approach to this decision making process.  Her article addresses 23 different topics you’ll find useful.  Each topic is short and to the point.  However, she’s also added some ideas that you may not expect to be found in this course of discussion.  If you’re thinking of running your business from the cloud, take some time to view this post.  Don’t forget to leave a comment as well.  You’ll definitely be enlightened in exchange for the time spent.


The Benefits Of Cloud Services Adoption

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How Can Cloud Services Adoption Benefit Your Business?

Cloud based services are available in various forms and at different levels.  Just about anyone from a home consumer all the way up to a multinational corporation can purchase, or consume for free, cloud services.  But just like anything else, why should anyone use cloud services?  Is all the hype really substantive?  I would like to propose that cloud based services provide a benefit that is sometimes difficult to recognize.  I want to share with you exactly how businesses can benefit from cloud services adoption.

There are particular aspects of operating a business that that are vital to the revenue cycle. One of the them is uptime. Uptime is measured by the amount of time a businesses systems are accessible to customers. If your customers can’t access your systems to purchase goods or services, your business can’t make money. Cloud services can help to eliminate the negative impact downtime can have to your sales by increasing the number of available zones your business systems can operate in. Most cloud service vendors have zones across the world. This helps to provide constant availability. Which in turn, increases uptime.  How much would you be willing to pay for constant availability? More importantly, how much would it cost you to ensure that kind of availability for your business?

Another aspect of business operations that is a direct benefit of cloud services adoption is disaster recovery (DR).  A cloud service implementation could be used as part of an overall DR plan.  This plan could couple with a Continuity of Operations (COOP) plan.  Think of how have deploying some, or all of your IT infrastructure with a cloud service provider could solidify one or both of these plans.  Based on your business needs and decisions made concerning either your COOP or DR plan, a cloud based service could be a definite base camp.  Additionally,  think of how these types of business requirements would be met by implementing a comprehensive cloud strategy for you IT infrastructure.  How would you plan for a disaster or an outage that affects you continuity if your services already running in different parts of the world?  How much is having a COOP and DR plan that could literally be bullet proof worth to you?

I don’t want to forget the about the issue of security since it’s such a hot topic.  However, I think I’ll save it for a later post.  The fact is, many companies have there data and services with cloud service providers.  Based on my use of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services, security starts with the way you configure your accessible assets.  A complete understanding of your providers security model is the first goal to accomplish.  Then you can go from there.

Take some time to muddle over these ideas on cloud services adoption and let me know what you think.

Key Performance Indicators and BPM

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How KPIs relate to Business Process Management

If you’re looking to find ways to improve your company’s process execution cycle, you’ll need a good understanding of Key Performance Indicators or what’s also known as KPIs.  These indicators can help to define the disposition of various types of business processes in your company.  Take a look at this tutorial on the PMNsoft website.  This information will help give you a better understanding of how key performance indicators relate to business process improvement.  If you are looking to improve your company’s customer service, contact Paraklesys sales so we can assist you with developing and executing a plan.  Let us know what your needs are so we can provide the insight you need to achieve your goals.

KPI – Key Performance Indicators

 

TQM – Total Quality Management Resources | ASQ

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Continuous Improvement with Total Quality Management (TQM)

Our Business Process and Goals Strategizing service is designed to assist you with looking at your company from a long term perspective.  If you desire your company to continue past your ability to manage it, what strategies will you put in place to ensure that happens.  More importantly, how will you realize the impact your company has in the market.   These are the issues that, when resolved or approached, can open doors to new understanding with respect to your business.

There isn’t much talk about Business Process and Goal Strategizing when it comes to IT.  However, recently I was doing some research in this area and found that there’s not much on the internet as well.  Maybe I wasn’t using the proper search phrases, but it was difficult to find what I was looking for.  I was finally able to find some relevant content that I thought quite interesting.   Please review the ASQ.org site.  There’s some great articles and publications as well.

TQM – Total Quality Management Resources | ASQ.

“Bring Your Own Device” — Importance of Defining Business Objectives – Forbes

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Defining Your Company’s BYOD Objectives

What is all this discussion about bring your own device (BYOD)?  What exactly is it anyway?  WhatIs.com has a great definition for BYOD.  At first I was surprised at the fullness of the term.  I always considered it a term associated with only smartphones.  However, there is much more to it than that.  John Herrema contributed a two part series that I think presents a well rounded approach for decision makers.

“Bring Your Own Device” — Importance of Defining Business Objectives – Forbes.

The new BPM program: A focus on data-driven business outcomes

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Business Process Management (BPM)

With so much changing in the business environment, especially from a budget perspective, getting things done has become more of a challenge than ever.  Introducing a Business Process Management (BPM) program can make the difference between success and failure.  Christina Torode, Editorial Director at SearchCIO, writes a very useful article for today’s CIOs.

The new BPM program: A focus on data-driven business outcomes.