Nick Brown July 8, 2021 Business process outsourcing (BPO) involves hiring third-party contractors or cloud-based ‘business process as a service’ solutions to undertake your business operations instead of carrying these out in-house. Operations could be either back or front end, including areas such as accounting, payments, IT services, sales, and marketing. Organizations outsource for a … Continue reading 6 Ways to Leverage Business Process Outsourcing to Boost Business Growth
Ganesh Shankar June 22, 2021 Let’s not sugarcoat it: responding to requests for proposals (RFPs) prior to automation was brutal. Like doing your taxes, you knew there was likely a payoff, but you procrastinated going through the rigamarole for as long as possible. Proposal management teams of yesteryear relied on antiquated processes, redundancy, and inefficiency, … Continue reading RFP Automation: What It Is, How it Works, and Best Practices
Lucy Spencer June 21, 2021 Anybody using conscious business practices knows that enhanced wellbeing is a natural by-product of living and breathing them. When your focus is not on your company’s bottom line, but is centred on providing solutions that will benefit your business, team, customers, local community, and the environment, a heightened level of … Continue reading How Are Conscious Business Practices Good For Your Wellbeing?
RD Symms June 14, 2021 If you’re new to the proposal or bid process, then you’ll need the request for proposal (RFP) basics. Even though, like all business processes, the request for proposal process has changed over the years, many of the basics have held true. This article will brief you on what you need … Continue reading RFP 101: Request for Proposal Basics
Liz Kislik June 11, 2021 When clients ask how to develop better processes for almost any aspect of their business, I ask them what’s triggered their concern. Sometimes the people implementing the process or the people at the receiving end are unhappy with each other. Often both sides think that if only the other … Continue reading How a Thoughtfully Created Process Can Deliver More Effective Results
Monica Patterson March 29, 2021 Organizations issue requests for proposals (RFPs) because they have a problem that cannot be fixed internally. A big problem. That will cost lots of money. This isn’t calling a plumber to fix a clog. This is soliciting bids from multiple contractors for complete remodels, or to construct full-on additions. RFPs … Continue reading How to Respond to an RFP Like an All-Star Champ
Angela Hausman, PhD March 24, 2021 Building a collaborative workforce is one of the most critical steps you need for long-term survival. When you have employees pulling in opposing directions or segments of the company with different priorities, it slows the business down and makes progress almost impossible to achieve. Photo by fauxels from Pexels … Continue reading Building a Collaborative Workforce to Improve Business Performance
AJ Sunder March 12, 2021 When I first started responding to RFPs, few people were paying attention to RFP metrics. Sure, there were definitely some trailblazers who were measuring performance, analyzing wins and losses, and optimizing efficiency… but I certainly wasn’t one of them. For me, responding to RFPs was less of a process than … Continue reading How to Use RFP Metrics to Minimize Risk and Enhance Efficiency
Laura Patterson February 24, 2021 https://media.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/content.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/operational_excellence_spinning_plates_podcast_1_online-audio-converter_com_.mp3 The goal of operational excellence is to improve business performance through process. Operational excellence is what enables organizations to achieve long-term sustainable growth. At its heart, operational excellence is about how, every person within an organization delivers value to a customer. Dr. Joseph Juran, one of the early experts … Continue reading A Proven Method for Operational Excellence
Jon-Mikel Bailey January 22, 2021 This post is a detailed explanation of something I’ve found a surprising number of marketers to be uninformed or misinformed about… automated drip campaigns and the sales process. Automated Drip Campaign Definition Marketing automation or automated drip campaigns are workflows developed within a marketing automation platform, such as Hubspot or … Continue reading The Relationship Between Automated Drip Campaigns & Your Sales Process
