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Five lessons Albert Einstein can teach us about business systems
Five lessons we Einstein can teach us about business systems - From bookkeeping to Data Analytics, from Customer Relationship Management to Artificial Intelligence - these five principles keep you on top of your applications - not the other way round
Matt Koopmans
23.01.19 06:05 PM - Comment(s)
A great CRM does not make great sales people - 3 things that will increase the effectiveness of your CRM

CRM  (Customer Relationship Management) Solutions have been around for over two decades (in one form or another - I started my journey in sales activity management (SAM) in 1996 - and the solutions have evolved significantly since that time). CRM may have evolved, a lot of the questions regardi...

Matt Koopmans
16.01.19 11:22 AM - Comment(s)
Cobb's Paradox - why projects still fail

"We know why projects fail; we know how to prevent their failure - so why do they still fail?" - Martin Cobb


If you are involved in delivering ICT projects, you must have heard this phrase coined more than once - I came across this well over a decade ago (and it was not a new discovery then...

Matt Koopmans
04.01.19 04:04 PM - Comment(s)
How much are your business expenses really costing you?

Expenses - without incurring expenses, it is impossible to conduct business. Whether you are a sole entrepreneur, or a large enterprise - expenses are part of doing business. Whether you use petty cash, or a corporate credit card - the hidden costs of expenses are in the handling of the administrati...

Matt Koopmans
22.11.18 01:48 PM - Comment(s)
Lies, damn lies, and spreadsheets

November is the second month of Spring here in Australia - and over the weekend we had temperatures soaring to the mid-to high 30's (even over 40's at the hottest point point of the day Friday - this is degrees Celsius, about 100 degrees Fahrenheit). One cannot help but to want for a nice cold water...

Matt Koopmans
04.11.18 02:00 PM - Comment(s)
ChatBots and Chat from Email - new features of SalesIQ

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the comprehensive features of SalesIQ (https://www.aurelian-group.com/blogs/post/engage-and-convert-website-visitors-with-salesiq). Now Zoho has introduced two new and powerful features to engage with your visitors - a ChatBot, and a Chat from Email functionality.

Matt Koopmans
01.10.18 05:46 PM - Comment(s)
Agile for Business Application implementation - a triumvirate of Mindset, Process, and Tools

Agile has been around for a while - quite a while indeed. And it is still, for a lack of a better word, "fashionable" as an implementation method for business applications. Is it successful? The proliferation of Agile as method of choice seems to indicate success, but are "agile"...

Matt Koopmans
10.09.18 05:27 PM - Comment(s)
Zoho Backstage - for all your events

Organising events is something a lot more common than one might think. It is not just the major conference organisers, or the large corporates. Events are organised by small businesses, local councils, sports clubs, not-for-profit organisations, charities, and they can be local as well as regionally...

Matt Koopmans
27.08.18 05:59 PM - Comment(s)
Engage and convert website visitors with Zoho SalesIQ

So, you have a website - as does every other business. You spend time, effort, and perhaps money into directing traffic to your online presence. You use Google Analytics (or Bing Webmaster... or both) to see the traffic results on your website... but exactly who is visiting you? And what do they do ...

Matt Koopmans
31.07.18 02:42 PM - Comment(s)
Why the cost of business applications is still so high, and why it should not be so

With the introduction of "cloud" we have seen the promise of commoditised business applications - just like you get your power out of the socket in the wall, you get business applications that are "just ready to go" - well, almost. At least, that was the promise. Yet, the impleme...

Matt Koopmans
23.07.18 05:45 PM - Comment(s)