Business Process, Information Technology, Information Technology Strategy, Lean Accounting, Lean Business, Mobile Device Applications, mobile devices
Almost all corporations today provide mobile devices – smart phones, iPad, etc. to employees. The question is ‘Are they used for more than just phones, email, Facebook and Twitter?’ There are many business applications for which these devices...
Business Process, General, Information Technology, Lean Accounting, Lean Business, Offshoring, Outsourcing
Outsourcing is seen as one of the best and quickest ways to reduce cost. The popular thought is that you outsource non-core business functions to companies and locations that can do it cheaper than your team can if it is kept in-house. While I agree that...
Business Process, Finance Department, Lean Accounting, Lean Business
I attended an APICS event last night and the presentation by Robert Fox focused on lean & Six Sigma and why we would want to implement them. Most of us associate ‘lean’ with manufacturing as the concepts which originated at Toyota were...
Business Process, Creative Thinking, General, Information Technology, Lean Accounting
I am reading a new book by John C. Maxwell entitled ‘How Successful People Think’. An intriguing title. If you are not familiar with John C. Maxwell he is a very dynamic speaker, and an expert on Leadership....
Business Process, Finance Department, General, Information Technology, Lean Accounting
Have you gone on a corporate crash diet in the last couple of years. After the binging in the early 2000’s and the financial collapse in 2008, many companies felt it necessary to put themselves on a crash spending diet. So what do I mean by...
Business Process, ERP Selection, Finance Department, General, Information Technology, Lean Accounting
We have discussed the Financial Supply Chain and the importance to cash flow and profitiabilty for optimizing it. Optimizing the Financial Supply Chain is a function of optimized business process and effective information technology. In my last post, I...
