Archive for 'business objectives' Category

eBusiness – Integration of websites with 3rd party applications

By ebusiness - Last updated: Thursday, July 3, 2008

Recently I have spoken to two businesses that are interested in an eCommerce website. Both are established businesses running retail websites. One ecommerce website was more successful then other but the issues were identical. Rather than integrating the websites into the necessary third party applications someone was having to copy and paste data between two [...]

How To Deliver On Long Term Objectives

By ebusiness - Last updated: Friday, January 18, 2008

There are two sides to the financial objectives and they are split into two points each. On the one side we need to improve our business productivity, this can be achieved by improving our cost base and increasing the utilisation of our assets. Essentially the reduction of costs will lead to an increase in profitability. [...]

Supporting Our Financial Objectives

By ebusiness - Last updated: Friday, January 18, 2008

Some time ago Kaplan and Norton developed an interesting tool for measuring business success that wasn’t just focused on the financial targets. It could be argued – well what else is important, but that tends to be very short sighted. An example would be – why don’t we cut back on marketing spend. The accountants [...]