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Re-entering Data.
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| Do your personnel re-enter the same data more than once, whether to produce reports, or satisfy operational requirements or because the same information is used by a different department or required in an "unconnected" software application?. |
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Spreadsheets as a panacea.
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| Are spreadsheets your way of dealing with your data? Do your personnel spend a lot of time entering information into spreadsheets, and manipulating them.? |
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Efficiency considerations.
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| As senior managers, or owners of your business, can you pinpoint anyone in your organisation that addresses the question not only WHAT process are carried out in the company and what information is produced but HOW these are done? The cost of running a business is often associated with the answers to asking the question "HOW" a business runs. Example, How much effort is expended by your personnel in supplying you with your weekly figures?. |
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Lack of data sharing between offices.
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| Is information transferred between offices in your organisation by printing, faxing(or emailing) and then re-entering that information at the received location? |
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Repetitive tasks
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| Is there too much effort required in carrying out necessary but repetitive activities. -for example, carrying out weekly or monthly budgets, forecast and sales updates? |
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Information control.
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| Is the information vital to company ‘s operation, currently residing in individual ‘s diaries, files, spreadsheets on individual machines? |
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Or your answer is No to some of these: |
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Decision Support Information.
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| Does your organisation have easy access to decision support information that is:
- immediate ?
- navigable ?
- visual ?
- available through selected views ?
- supplied with graphical user interfaces (GUI) or drilldown-enabled inquiry tools for your information?
- supplied with good use of new technology innovations that give your users the feeling that they are on the leading edge of technology?
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