Brief Notes on Business Administration & e-Company

Dr.  S.  Maurer,  
MBA Professor

If you want to keep your exëcutives in the dark,  send them a thick stack of paper on your project management.  If you want to raise a smoke screen for your clients on the true status of your project,  have them tape many 8.5*11 sheets to a giant printout of a Gantt chart.  These practices are all not acceptable of course.

And if the enterprise already have a modern Transational online system,  operating in an appropriate considered way,  but without the functions for a programming DDC? After all,  in this transition phase that is a very common situation...  In this case,  it is not very justifiable the abandonment of that system that is operational and,  only considering its only function Transational,  with appropriate considered performance,  because that would involve extra costs,  installations problems,  general training,  and periods varying from one to three years for everything to be assimilated and working.

Once you have a list of tasks,  you can start making a plan to complete them.  Many tasks are independent of one another [such as digitize video and create paper mockup of interface],  but many are not.  

Attached work procedures and other external documents can be viewed directly from the GEMWorX FlowModeler® and eFlowModeler®.  

In addition to focusing an organization on the customer,  a commitment to operational excellence brings with it one other powerful advantage: it allows the enterprise to position supply chain operations to drive top-line revenue growth and help achieve its strategic business objectives.

Simplicity.  In general,  SaaS is simpler to deploy from a technical perspective.  Because you don't need to purchase additional servers or physically install the software in yourself,  it can be an easy and quick means of deploying the software.  On the other hand,  the high level of technical ease may create additional business complexities that you may not otherwise experience with traditional erp [see #2 below].  

In the real world,  he will search for a enterprise that sells we say parts for automobiles,  if we find some difficulty in the first founded  enterprise we will have to spend time and additional resources to search a 2nd.   alternative [we say to walk half kilometer,  to lose half hour,  to do several phone calls,  etc].  That does with that we seek,  instinctively,  to solve our problem with the 1st.  alternative,  being worth therefore the old concept of good point or location.  In the world of the internet,  that process takes the form of the result of a search in a system of search,  and the 2nd.  alternative is only at an additional click,  not being worth therefore the old concept of good point.  In the internet that concept doesn't exist,  everybody are equal!

So why the past tense? The advantages of frame relay are now achieved via the internet.  The timeframes for implementation have been reduced from hours to minutes.  Encryption has advanced beyond the security offered by isolated paths.  Advances in application based routing can achieve availablity assurances.  Legacy protocols have been largely replaced by ip.

Merchandise returns.  Facilitate returns by providing a preprinted return shipping label or clear instructions about where and how to ship returns.  You'll also need a system that allows you to track customers' reasons for returns.  Be sure your system allows prompt refunds to customers' credit cards.  

In simpler terms,  [crm] is the technique of establishing and maintaining long-term business relationships with your customers.  [crm] involves utilizing the data collected during your customer interactions to determine the demographics and future needs of each customer.

The next great thing is already here.  But don't look for it inside the enterprise,  look outside,  to your customers.  customer relationships are a enterprise's most valuable asset's worth more than products,  stores,  factories,  or even employees.  Especially now in the internet economy,  getting and keeping the most profitable customer relationships is job #1 for CEOs.  customer relationship management [crm] is the strategy to do just that.

From destinationCRM.com,  21 December 2001.  Creating the stronger focus on customers,  and achieving the related increases in retention and satisfaction,  i well within reach.

As you begin planning a project,  consider the scheduling formula and task types and determine the best setting for the majority of your project tasks.  If you mix too many task types throughout the project,  you may forget which settings you have applied to individual tasks.

As with reconciliation,  resolution has the ultimate goal of improving the work environment and team functioning,  but seeks also to strengthen communications and build a foundation for deeper rapport and cooperative relationships.

RFID tags can be read as long as they are within range of a reader.  Bar codes have other shortcomings as well.  If a label is ripped,  soiled or falls off,  there is no way to scan the item.  And standard bar codes identify only the manufacturer and product,  not the unique item.  The bar code on one milk carton is the same as every other,  making it impossible to identify which one might pass its expiration date first.