Prevent Meetings From Becoming The Most Non-Productive Events

Meeting rooms - the centre stage where all the action starts, are not living up to the name these days. Apart from being a time consuming activity, the idea of meeting in itself has attracted some stigma. Why so? Because what happens in a meeting generally gets left behind. Ideas getting discussed and not getting retained later or worse, not acted upon later makes the participants disillusioned.

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5 Reasons Why Your Company “Needs” Knowledge Management.

“Get it right the first time” is the Mantra now. Of course, mistakes do form a part of great growth stories. But the sooner the mistakes are spotted and rectified, faster the growth. To prevent mistakes, we need to know how to perform tasks and the knowledge to improve , or know how. This is where most organisations underestimate the power of knowledge management. The usual activities to increase learning may not be sufficient.

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Five Ways To Increase Sales Effectiveness With Your Contact Management System

With databases being the first touchbase of any marketing campaign, they are almost like a gold mine waiting to be explored. It is only when a database throws up good contacts that a marketing campaign takes off! These contacts are followed and nurtured through their entire lifecycle.

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Is Your Task Management System Creating Value For You?

“Task management” does not really require too many explanations. It is simple. A system which helps manage the innumerable tasks that turns the wheel around. Recording, assigning and monitoring tasks are the minimum that this system is expected to do. That is how it all began

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Collaboration tools – A must-have ingredient for growth

Imagine being in a large ship. To steer it an inch ahead, a series of tasks need to be done simultaneously. Only perfect co-ordination can keep it moving forward. Any project experience feels nothing less than that. Multiple stakeholders, multiple team members, and multiple tasks – everything has to be managed to accomplish a goal. No wonder, collaboration tools have been around for a long time. From Lotus Notes to scheduling tools, programs have been evolving to cater to just one need – Collaboration!

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Why Spreadsheets Are Not The Best Task Management Tools

Tasks are like small building blocks. Placed correctly in order, they hold the entire structure tight & solid! Every project’s success depends on how the tasks are assigned, managed and completed. However, most organisations do not realise how task management affect the overall productivity. Today’s teams do not work in compartments. They are highly connected. And that makes the work environment a highly interdependent one. Tasks in this environment need to be assigned, completed and measured. The need to measure stems from the need to dig into the valuable insights about the workflow of the organisation. Spreadsheets are the most commonly used tools of task management. Spreadsheet is an excellent tool to do many things, but task management is not one of them.

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Launch of Sigmify

I am very happy to announce that we launched Sigmify on 18-19 March, 2015 at CIO Conclave in Mumbai. We were hard at work for about a year and a half in developing and refining Sigmify. We developed core platform, built Issue Management and CRM Management applications and deployed internally. We invited our business associates to review the platform. Internal customer’s feedback helped us get over teething troubles before the formal launch. The concept received an enthusiastic response from the attendees and visitors to the booth at CIO Conclave. The CIOs and CTOs could instantly relate to two main problems they face, a) ‘Silo’ed Automation b) Fragmentation of work. I will explain how Sigmify promises to address these.

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