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Coping With The Unexpected

Written on January 27, 2012 at 5:30 am, by

It’s essential to cope with the unexpected in small business. In any line of work, flexibility is the name of the game. If you thought being a manager meant that you would control your own store, without chaos, and you wouldn’t need to stay up late, you should probably think again. Managers need to be used to dealing with stress and hassle, especially if you’re in any job that revolves around deadlines. Managers should be prepared to take creative and sometimes drastic measures to ensure that a job gets completed.

With any small or large business, with management comes responsibility. It is your job to ensure that you can cope with the unexpected. Can you cope with an employee coming in sick, or pretending to be sick just to get the day off of work? Can you cope with things that may happen to your business, like crime and theft? It is the manager’s duty and job to always be prepared, and to make sure that the essential things get purchased for your office, such as office insurance.

Insurance for your office is necessary so that, in the event that something drastic happens, you will be protected. Good insurance will ensure that you are able to recover or replace your property, be that the building or the contents within. Always read the fine print on any insurance policy, and don’t hesitate to ask questions about it. As with anything else, asking questions is your key to success in any small or large business. When you ask questions, you will be able to assure yourself of the answer and make sure that you have the necessary insurance for your office.

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Business Innovation Strategy – Don’t Stop After One Good Innovation

Written on January 26, 2012 at 4:55 pm, by

An innovation strategy for your business should support your business objectives – including both short-term and long-term goals. Does your Innovation Strategy have a long-term outlook to identify and develop a steady flow of creative ideas?

Unfortunately, many companies actively identify and develop innovations for a limited period of time. The flow of creative ideas is often strong when a company is getting started and looking to establish itself with a unique product or service. However, once that first innovation is identified and developed, too many companies stop the innovation process that created the business success in the first place. Read more

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IT Managers Know That Preparing For A Crisis Is The Key To Career Survival

Written on January 18, 2012 at 12:55 pm, by

Unless you have one of those “lucky 8-balls” that we used to have when we were growing which you could shake and it would display a message in its window (“not very likely”), then you probably don’t have a good method for predicting the future. What you need is a plan for what your IT team needs to do when the unthinkable actually happens…

It’s Time For A Brainstorm

Let’s face it – you can’t possibly think of everything that might happen to your team. You can think of some things, but it’s going to take the input from the rest of your team in order to come up with a complete list of the possible crisis that you need to plan for.

The best way to go about doing this is to pull your team together into a brainstorming session. During this meeting allow everyone to come up with crisis scenarios and don’t initially reject any of them as being too far fetched. During this session you want to collect all possible ideas and you can sort them out later on. Read more

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