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QUESTION: WHY DON’T SOUTH AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS AUTOMATE THEIR BUSINESSES?

Here’s a little story about innovation and tough decisions:

At the offices of IBM, Steve Jobs saw that having a Graphical User-Interface (GUI), as opposed to typing out green code onto a black screen, would shake the computer industry from the ground, upwards.

They didn’t have one of those yet at the time.

When leaving, he told his team that their company’s entire focus would need to shift.

Exasperated, one of his executives exclaimed, “but Steve, if we do that, we'll blow up our own business.”

“Better we should blow it up than someone else.” Jobs replied

They abandoned the Lisa project, which by the way, had cost them millions – then started on developing the Macintosh Computer – which then, as we may know it, changed the whole world.

A brief summary, for sure – but it says a lot about what it means to make a company decision that may or may not mean something powerful for the business.

It takes guts to actively think about your business honestly. And then make a decision about it.

At BizBot, we see how companies, time and time again, abandon business-changing projects out of fear or ignorance.

When they COULD streamline or automate their business, they don’t.

Normally out of fear it might blow their business up. Or something…

They don’t see how:

- The time saved could compound over time, their staff would be less stressed (no more tedious admin, centered on printing, organising paper and sending job cards out)

- Projects would be done faster, as the general hang-ups around long-overused ineffective systems (*cough* Excel Spreadsheets as customer databases *cough*) would be replaced with a new CRM.

- Less time would be spent on putting out admin-related fires. (Less admin to solve)

Business CRM/Automation Software could change how you do business (for the better)

It’s simply a matter of being willing to blow your own company up a bit – and put it back together again, albeit, better.

Contact our team at BizBot to learn more!

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DOES YOUR COMPANY SUFFER FROM “DATA SILOS”?

If you are a company owner where you have multiple departments – you may want to have a read here…

Often times, we never consider what it means to have company data in separate places and departments.

There are risks of a disconnect forming between our staff – and that’s never good. Imagine if one of your team is handling a client and they desperately need information that only ANOTHER DEPARTMENT HAS?

Imagine if the other department is off for the day?

This scenario, being a problem, is known as a data silo.

What is a data silo?

A data silo is where only one group/department in an organization can access one particular source of data.

This might be from being afraid of competition or hostility between departments or integrated businesses where employees keep data from each other, rather than working together.

What can you do to get rid of data silos in your business?
At BizBot Systems, we suggest the following…

• Use integrated/compatible software
• Create a more collaborative company culture
• Create a unified data storage access
• Choose an all-in-one solution to unify your data management
• Do complimentary cross-selling and marketing
• Intentional congruence between departments/companies

What do you think?

Wouldn’t you like to simplify your business and remove data silos altogether?

Contact us at BizBot systems to learn more: