Even though it’s sometimes seen as an enterprise-level business challenge, operational efficiency is a critical focus area for small to medium businesses (SMBs). Operational efficiency is about your business’s ability to deliver its products or services in an optimized and cost-effective way, minimizing waste and maximizing productivity. As a small business owner navigating growth, one of your biggest priorities has to be achieving operational efficiency.

Most business owners want their employees to be productive and happy. Productive employees are essential to any company, but employees who are satisfied with their jobs are just as important. This blog post will inform ten ways to boost employee productivity and job satisfaction. Follow the ten ways, and you can rest assured that your employees will be happier and more productive!

Do you have some suspicions that you are being monitored? So, how do you tell if your boss is monitoring your computer? Learn some of the best ways you can do this. Also read about the importance of transparency and open communication between employers and employees when it comes to monitoring practices.

Every click, swipe, and digital interaction contributes to business outcomes in the modern age. Most of us do digital work to create a valuable customer experience (which may also be entirely digital) and track digital metrics to show business growth or achievement of business goals — and even the goals and growth may be primarily or entirely digital! As businesses adjust to the realities of a digital environment, many are undertaking digital transformation programs.

Effectively managing agency operations is a lot more than just standardizing processes. It’s also about understanding the financial side of things. And use that information to make more informed decisions to help your agency progress and grow. Enter agency margins.

While sprint planning tools aim to streamline the planning process and enhance collaboration, they can also introduce challenges. Some tools lack flexibility, forcing teams to adapt their practices to fit the tool rather than supporting their preferred way of working. A lack of customization options can also hinder the effectiveness of these tools, leading to outdated data, information silos, and the need for workarounds. The result is poorly defined plans and wasted time.

Workflows are a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes – if they are intuitive enough to be used by tech and non-tech-savvy people alike. With this in mind, we’ve just redesigned InvGate Service Desk’s no-code Workflow Builder to make the experience much more accessible.In a nutshell, we kept all the functionalities our users already enjoyed but simplified the UX/UI, reduced the learning curve, and added some pre-built processes so you don’t need to start from scratch.

The EU parliament has approved its AI act, the world’s first recognized set of rules designed to regulate this technology. Under the act, AI solutions will be divided into risk categories, including an ‘unacceptable’ tier that will see models that pose systemic risk banned. The bill will come into force 12 months after it is made law and is subject to formal approval from ministers of EU member states.

Flexible work brings multiple benefits but demands managing time and efficiency for remote teams operating distributed across locations. With 51% of the remote workforce experiencing disengagement at work, organizations need to stay in sync with how teams work and what efficiency they gain.

Conducting a feasibility study is an important step in successful project management. By evaluating the viability of a proposed project, a feasibility study helps you identify potential challenges and opportunities, ensuring you make informed decisions. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to conduct a feasibility study with practical templates and real-world examples, designed for project managers seeking to optimize their project planning process.