There is a new and powerful way to manage your business Business information organization and your business Ten Steps to Best Business - a strategy for success About our books, ebooks, articles and materials About us, how to make contact and FAQs Home page and our short movie   All free materials on this website are subject to: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. Businesses all over the world - large and small are looking for ways to deal with the world economic crisis. What can they do to improve their productivity and the economic bottom line while the business world rides out the storm? A place to get started on creating best practice is your 'POLICY'. Is information about any kind of policy in your business missing or is it just hidden? Is it out of date? Who manages your policy and makes sure that it is applied? The business that secures its policy moves forward with velocity. Missing policy is a business killer.

Knowing what is there. Knowing what is there that should not be there. Knowing what is missing. Knowing what is needed.     four pillars of business information management best practice 1: We will always know what is there. This is about the context of the information that is on your computers and on your networks. Can you see what is there at any time or are you just leaving that up to the people who put it there to know what it is, whether it is valuable or whether it is taking up space and using up the time you are paying for. And because it is hard to find is it slowing down your business? If you have a document management system can it provide you with real answers to this question or is there something missing that could make a difference? 2: We will always know what is there that should not be there. Information that is not about your business is a risk to your business whether it is there to support those who are wasting your time, ready to do some mischief or are innocent players in the game of bring to the business to its knees, you need to get some real answers to this question. 3: We will always know what is missing. Information of value to the business gets deleted all the time and without anyone knowing it existed in the first place, it is lost to the business. You paid for it to be created and yet someone is ready to delete it without your approval or by accident. Forget about those backups because if you didn't know it existed in the first place why would you know what you have lost? 4: We will always know what is needed for the business to be successful. The problem you will have in getting assurances about this question is that without knowing what you have and why you have it, you will never ever know what you need. For example, in managing a particular project, you might find that staff member x found a great training program but staff members x and y don't have access to it because it is in x's my documents folder and when the time comes to use it they either forgot it existed or were never told. Imagine what would happen if x,y and z were working in the same area and were on the same page. These books shown above are now available in paperback and as eBooks in two formats. More about the books and obtaining copies or paperbacks may be sourced through Google Book Search and are available through online and local booksellers.