Perspective
Not a day goes by without a politician or banker talking about the global recessions. Many would have us believe that the whole world is collapsing around us and nobody is able to make a profit. It is accepted that the recession has hit many businesses both small and large where it hurts, the bottom line.
Customers are no longer willing to go into profligate spending based on unsustainable credit. There have been many bankruptcies both personal and institutional. The darkened mood of the consumers makes them prefer saving to spending.
Unemployment has virtually depleted the reserves of disposable income that so defined the age of the boom and burst. This article aims to ask the question as to whether business intelligence should act as a reactive or even defensive mechanism to cope with fluctuating economic situations. Read the rest of this entry
Information Technology (IT) is the strength of every business. IT is rarely used for planned thinking, but the investments in the IT enabled projects have been in huge demand. If you think, it is just a computer application, and then you are very wrong. I am sure, each and every organization has the knowledge of the advantages, effects and the implications of the Business IT.
Almost everyone is well aware of the fact that the IT is capable of making maintainable and sustainable competitive benefits. In the business arena, the IT is used through value chain of activities that facilitates the business organization to control and optimize the operational functions for effortless decision making process. Read the rest of this entry
One might struggle to associate the agricultural industry with InfoTech projects. However that struggle is partly as a result of stereotypes that are very hard to disassociate from IT. Agriculture is seen as the less glamorous business that cannot possibly be related to InfoTech. On the other hand IT is seen as a primarily office-based endeavor which has no business getting saddled with the agricultural sector.
However this view is rather old fashioned thinking. Agricultural enterprises can range from the small scale subsistence farms to large commercial firms that require huge investment and complex operations. Even for those that are presently small scale, it is advisable to consider up-scaling on the basis that the more technological advanced a farm is, the more likely it is to have large scale customers who pay well. Read the rest of this entry
Given the great effects that the level of business equity can have on the survival and credit rating of a company, it is a good idea to understand who has responsibility. It is clearly a financial concept and the natural place for resting responsibility would be with the different accountancy teams within the organization.
However there are dangers in this approach. If responsibility for business equity is shelved onto accountancy teams, other sections will not have an understanding of how their activities can lead to the diminishing or increase in business equity. Ideally everyone should understand their role in developing and maintaining business equity. Read the rest of this entry
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