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The Nokia Case: fall and rise
Multinationals are not always a guarantee of permanent success, even though they are considered indestructible over time and avant-garde in terms of technological innovations.
Construction industry: how to coordinate technical team and work
In the construction industry, coordination between the technical team and the construction team is key to getting the most out of human capital, thus achieving optimal construction.
7 steps to achieve an amazing project execution phase
The project execution phase is usually the longest phase of the project life cycle; and the most demanding. In the execution phase of the project:
Agility or speed: a fundamental difference for your company
When we talk about an organization with agile management, we are referring to a company where those involved in the process usually participate in all its stages, in a more informal, dynamic, and ...
Planning, management and control of different projects
Companies turn to the planning, management, and control of different projects to achieve the expected results according to the schedule. However, how do the concepts of planning and control relate to ...
Main marketing strategies to promote your consulting firm
Do you have a consulting firm? Are you just starting and need to promote your services? Are you a consultant looking for new clients or markets? As in any other company, if we want to exploit our ...
Change of technology in the company: 6 tips to keep in mind
The rise of technology has paved the way for various innovations. With the digital revolution, more and more companies are reaping the benefits of digital tools to improve their prospects. ...
Process design: 5 steps to increase the productivity of your area
A clearly defined business process helps get things done because it is clear how it is done and who is responsible for it for a successful outcome.
How to configure dependencies on Monday.com
Properly combining the different functionalities offered by the tool, we can achieve it without problems. If you thought that was the only thing missing from this software... It's solved!
How to implement a traceability system in your company?
People talk a lot about "traceability" in the business environment lately, and it has recently been acknowledged as a word. But what do we mean by traceability or how can we understand this concept ...
3 strategies for better interdepartmental communication
To prosper, companies must ensure that their various departments work well together. That's because effective interdepartmental communication is "the lifeblood of a successful organization."
5 principles to implement industry 4.0 in your company
Today, most metalworking companies are engaged in activities that could be considered part of "Industry 4.0". But only 29% of those companies are implementing new technologies at scale, giving them ...
RCA: what is root cause analysis?
In the business world, as in everyday life, problems continually arise. Some, according to the symptoms, require a greater degree of commitment and assistance than others; but in perspective, to ...
Efficient order management in your factory: How to achieve it?
Everyone has felt the disappointment of waiting for an order to arrive that we have made and that the wait is never-ending. Sometimes, in the worst case, the order never shows up. While it may have ...
5 things that make you waste time (and be less productive)
If you are an entrepreneur, you are going to feel highly identified with this. Day by day you think about how to make days longer, and of course, with this, carry out as many tasks as possible in the ...
Important: Know the stages of the consumer
You have customers. You care about each of their problems and offer them solutions. They will be happy customers; however, if this is not recurring, that is, you sell them something once and you do ...
7 strategic solutions to improve the productivity of your company
Companies are not static entities, so they are subject to constant changes to always be at the forefront of the latest technologies and innovations of a strategic nature. As a result, teams must be ...
What is a sales forecast and how to do it?
For the optimal operation of companies, sales forecasts are an essential tool, since they allow anticipating the behavior of the area and give it a better margin of action. If these forecasts were ...
6 infallible marketing strategies for the end of the year
We already know that the Holidays are not only two days a year. It's not about the 24th and the 31st, it's practically a month of celebrations, shopping, setting up the tree, including the manger, ...
How to write a SMART goal for the success of your company
Defining SMART marketing goals is probably one of the most difficult tasks for business leaders. Goals determine priorities for each team, help make company results measurable, and serve as a guide ...
Advantages and disadvantages of financial leverage
Debts can be a headache or an opportunity for the finances of a company, we have already mentioned it before. Therefore, there are conflicting opinions regarding the effectiveness of financial ...
15 advantages of having a commercial plan for 2018
Why do you get up every day? Many people surely just to comply with a schedule, but the rest, don't we get up to meet the objectives that we are proposing? And what better if these objectives are ...
How to digitize the personnel files?
The Human Resources area is usually in charge of storing the personnel files of a company with all their work history. Historically, these files used to be kept on printed paper, which is why a large ...
Why is my company not appearing on Google? Tips to achieve it
Does your company have years of experience and still can't get your potential customers to find you on Google? Are you anxious for it to be known and open to a wider market? Well, to appear on Google ...
Increase productivity in the metalworking industry
“I need to lower production/operation costs” / “I do not meet the delivery deadlines committed to the customer” / “I have many resources allocated to the operation” / “Quality problems affect ...
Deming Wheel: What is it and how does it contribute to your company?
Companies in their search to position themselves in an increasingly competitive market are implementing process management methodologies aimed at improving their productivity. Among these, the Deming ...
Technology applied to hygiene and safety: use and benefits
Society and technology go together in terms of progress. As one grows the other adapts and vice versa. Evolution is continuous and simultaneous. But... why is this so? Well, human beings have the ...
CES: Customer Effort Score. What is it and what is it for?
Wondering what's the new term that everyone seems to be throwing around these days? Don't worry, we've got you covered! Here, you will find everything you need to know about Customer Effort Score, or ...
Communication as a productive advantage
We currently find ourselves in a globalized world, where communication is essential for the development of society and, therefore, the company needs to carry out the functions that will allow you to ...
10 Key Performance Indicators for production management
Most companies are concerned with achieving greater profitability and scalability as they enter the market and position their brand. However, to reach this stage, the production area has a notable ...
Do you know what SMART goals are?
One of the fundamental pillars of effective teamwork is goal orientation. When people, teams, and companies work with well-defined objectives, productivity improves exponentially. What is the ...
Checklist: KPIs for decision making in business management
KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are a series of business metrics that are used to evaluate factors crucial to the success or failure of a business. These indicators play a fundamental role when ...
9 ways to increase productivity in your metalworking
Regardless of the size of your business today, it's important to continue to make improvements that effectively increase the productivity level of your business while lowering costs.
Full guide: how to create a customer onboarding process
Every time customers have a hard time during or after making a purchase, it happens that they will immediately regret their decision. Once they have made the payment, they want to use the product and ...
Inventory management problems. Where do we start?
Managing inventories or stocks is not an easy task, since many times the logistics area does not manage to have sufficient visibility of possible problems in inventory management, which may be ...
How to handle the most common sales objections?
"The price, this TV is very expensive." "The form of payment, this financing does not fit me." "The design, this shirt doesn't fit me." All these are very common objections in selling, one can find ...
How to identify hidden costs in your company
Keeping control of costs is fundamental to directing a company towards success. However, it is not always so easy to achieve because it requires exhaustive supervision of the processes that are being ...
What should I take into account when choosing a technological tool?
Knowing how to manage your company's data is crucial, which is why it is also important to know that even if you have a lot of information, it can become irrelevant if it is not structured; that is, ...
Detection of improvement opportunities
Undoubtedly, the most successful companies today are not satisfied with remaining on time. They aspire to achieve a more transcendent goal, surpassing the success obtained with new challenges that ...
Guide: Step by step to plan a business trip
It is not only about managing budgets or the number of people that will travel, business travel planning goes much further, especially when you are not a Travel Manager or Assistant Director.
What is the purpose of finance in a company?
Accounting is the way of keeping track of a company's activities, but finance gives life to a business and runs through every part of a company's operations. Few decisions are made without the ...
Strategy in the business plan
In a meeting with what would be called an “Angel” of Investment Funds, he told me: “I believe less and less in the Business Plans that are presented to me because they all give the results that they ...
Blind departments: information silos and their effect on your company
In business management and information technology, a silo is any management system that cannot work with any other system, which means that it is isolated from the other systems. Silos create an ...
Partnership: the importance of developing strategic alliances
When talking about strategic alliances in a business context, it refers to the union between two or more entities to achieve a personal benefit from mutual support. In colloquial terms, this union is ...
Bottlenecks. How to detect and remove them from the process?
Process bottlenecks are among the reasons why projects get delayed, budgets skyrocket due to the added cost of delays, and the entire process becomes unpredictable. Instead of fighting the symptoms, ...
How to optimize processes with digital tools?
No process is immediately perfect. Perfection is a relentless effort that requires honest analysis followed by adjustments and improvements.
8 examples of creative offices that will inspire you
The million-dollar question… How to decorate a modern office to inspire creativity and enthusiasm? Do you have no idea? That is why today we show you 8 of the most creative and inspiring offices in ...
How to reformulate the processes in your company?
Speaking of "reformulating the processes in your company to improve productivity" usually refers to the image of executives designing large and ambitious new policies. A set of revolutionary formulas ...
Growth Marketing, the advantages of its implementation
Lately, the businesses that companies implement have a user base that is increasing every day, as well as their income. It is Growth Hacking or Marketing that is responsible for driving many ...
Software companies: 10 tips to design a business plan
In this digital age of constant innovation and adaptation, all companies must add and adapt to information technologies. In addition, they must generate new strategies that adapt to the requirements ...
Queuing theory: Minimize customer waiting time
Has it ever happened to you that your customers have to wait a long time in endless lines to purchase a product from your business? Or maybe it has happened to you, as a customer that the customer ...
Case study Blockbuster: Why is it necessary to innovate?
Blockbuster was an American video store franchise, specializing in movie and video game rentals through physical stores, mail-order, and on-demand services, during the 1990s and early 2000s. It was ...
Commercial plan: What to take into account to plan your strategy?
To successfully achieve the objectives that companies set for themselves, it is essential that they develop, previously planned, an adequate commercial plan that is feasible to execute within a ...
The importance of the financial profitability of a company
In previous articles, we had already referred to the concept of financial profitability, known in Anglo-Saxon literature as Return on Equity (ROE), as a measure of profitability that is closer to ...
The importance of prospecting in Inbound Marketing
It is known that Inbound Marketing seeks to reach customers in a way that they do not feel and do not know that they are being influenced to buy something. In this sense, the pillar of Inbound ...
Collaboration technologies help improve productivity
The rise of the global economy and the distributed workforce means that organizations must ensure that teams can work together seamlessly from anywhere at any time.
How does the lack of information and communication affect your sales?
Effective business communication is essential to the success of any business. It is the blood flow of the company, providing the information employees need to do their jobs and providing the ...
Process mapping: 9 stages you must take into account
In previous articles, we have defined process mapping as a term used to describe any activity involved in identifying what a business is doing, who is responsible for doing it, what standards it is ...
10 tips to position yourself in the market
Positioning itself in the market is the supreme objective pursued by most companies, that is, how they are projected in the mind of the consumer. Market positioning is, literally, the position that a ...
Planning: how to create a commercial plan for 2022
To achieve the objectives that companies set for themselves successfully (even in a pandemic), they must develop an adequate commercial plan that is feasible to execute within a certain period.
How to create recurring tasks on Monday.com?
How can I make my activities repeat? This is one of the main questions we are asked in the demos of Monday.com, a project management platform. Here we tell you how you can create recurring tasks in ...
Manufacturing productivity and efficiency: the difference in 2020
Two key concepts in manufacturing that are often misunderstood or even used synonymously are productivity and efficiency. Do you know the difference? Despite these two words related to the ...
Collaborative work: the role of processes
Processes are a fundamental part of all organizations and how they are carried out is a key point to achieving organizational objectives. We usually talk about teamwork, as the work modality is ...
What is Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)?
Today's customers not only want a superior experience, they expect CCaaS to be your solution to deliver it. It doesn't matter if you have superior products or services with stellar prices if you ...
Why using NPS? 9 reasons to know about its importance
You hear a lot of NPS these days. Although there are several other metrics like CSAT, CES, etc. For measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, NPS seems to have topped the charts! It has become so ...
Monday.com: everything you need to know before buying it
If you are reading this article, you may have already reviewed the main functionalities of the tool, and you are sure (or almost sure) that it adapts to the work that you and your team do. If you ...
How to build customer loyalty in the health industry
Talking about health is a sensitive issue, not only because of the public and government institutions behind it but also because we are talking about the lives of hundreds of people who put ...
Accounting automation: everything you need to know
You may have heard of accounting automation and probably wondered if it could help your practice or not. Depending on whom you ask, automation is either a big threat or the next big thing in ...
Most used strategies to sell a property
At present, there is high competition in the real estate market, and this is the reason why real estate sellers must know how to differentiate themselves from their competitors to stand out and ...
Industry 4.0: the smart future of metalworking
Digitization and networks are rapidly gaining ground in the metal industry, and the same trend is also taking place in storage and production technologies. Isolated, manual processes are increasingly ...
Construction industry: key elements to improve profitability
In a construction project, work deadlines and the coordination of a complex chain of resources (both human, technical, and material) can have a huge impact on economic results.
Process improvement: how it impacts the profitability of the company
It is essential that you understand that processes do not necessarily have to be made up of complex tasks. For them to be considered as such, it is enough that the tasks that compose them are chained ...
5 essential elements to position your brand on the Internet
We know that the Internet is currently a great ally of companies, both large and medium-sized and small. The Internet works as an ally because it helps a business to sell, make itself known, reach ...
Increased productivity in the construction industry
Labor productivity in construction has remained relatively stagnant over the past two decades. With the ongoing battle of labor shortages still affecting the industry, contractors are trying to find ...
Tip: 6 tips to improve the profitability of a company
The profitability of a company is perhaps the most important metric, (the KPI Key Performance Indicator) because it is really what a company generates in net profits/benefits; therefore, this value ...
Human Resources: personnel selection flow
The human resources area is very important when it comes to managing the flow of personnel selection because the success or stagnation of a company will depend on the choice made since every ...
10 Creative exercises more efficient than brainstorming
We all know that brainstorming is a traditional method to generate new ideas, but there are other exercises that will allow you to deal with problems and develop new ideas, both individually and in a ...
Commercial area: Establish a sales plan to achieve goals
The sales plan is a tool that gives order and strategy to the sector that keeps your business alive: sales. The commercial sales plan describes the objectives, the main tactics, the target audience, ...
monday.com: latest updates [2020]
Like some software tools, monday.com is a Work OS that is constantly on the move, updating itself, improving functions, and so on. From February 2020 to today, there have been numerous updates (you ...
The metalworking industry in South America: main obstacles
The metals industry is witnessing a period of low growth that has put pressure on prices and created uncertain demand in the industry. Coupled with a lack of supply chain visibility, price ...
Zappos case: the best customer service
We have insisted countless times that customer service is a key element that determines the degree of satisfaction of our customers and their loyalty to the brand. Poor customer service generates ...
The importance of digitizing financial processes
Digitizing financial processes is a necessary maneuver in the digital transformation that has been taking place for a couple of years; it was enhanced in the last year due to the scenario that the ...
Information flow between departments: definitive solution
As we have seen in previous articles, one of the main challenges that companies face today is to gather data from the systems they use so that information flows throughout the organization. ...
How does customer experience drive digital transformation?
Commonly confused with user experience (UX), customer experience is the broader framework for improving a customer's perception and interactions with a brand. Improving the customer experience has ...
Pan American World Airways: process analytics
What was once one of the main and largest airlines in the world, initially called Pan American World Airways System, was born as a small company that operated in Central America and the Caribbean. By ...
How to apply the 5S method in the office?
On the 5S method scale, how organized and disciplined are you? And your company? Sometimes the good functioning of an organization is not just about implementing technologies and selling more. It is ...
How to be efficient at home office: pomodoro technique
Perhaps it has happened to you that with the outbreak of the pandemic, work presence has been reduced to a minimum or directly replaced by the home office and remote work modality. For companies, ...
25 effective ways to improve the post-purchase experience
Most businesses miss the big picture when they don't have a post-purchase experience marketing strategy. Your customers go through a lot of emotions after making the purchase. They are excited that ...
5 key tips to increase the profits of your business
Do you need to increase profits in your business? Do you want to generate a greater flow of income? Give a twist to your current sales strategies? Today we invite you to read a series of tips on how ...
Transversal processes: 5 keys to implement them successfully
When talking about transversal processes, the question arises as to whether it is a type of process or some methodology. Well, let's make it clear that they are those processes that go through ...
5 problems between marketing and sales that prevent increasing revenue
Within any company with a broad structure, the Marketing department and the Sales department are two key elements for the success of the company. The problem lies when these two areas don't have ...
Strategic planning: crucial for the growth of your company
Strategic business planning is a way of laying out the goals and objectives of the company, and how the company will achieve these goals. Strategic plans focus on the medium and long-term goals of a ...
Industry 4.0 and the future of metalworking companies
The race to adopt elements of Industry 4.0 is already underway among metalworking companies and it has been discovered that the fourth revolution will bring benefits in three main areas:
The importance of information transparency
Do the important people of your company waste a lot of time preparing and analyzing data? Do you have different applications, tools where you store your information and cannot integrate them into a ...
Lays Case: towards the conquest of the Asian market
Snacks are appetizers that most of us have at certain times of the day. There are healthy and not so healthy ones, but if there is something that both types agree on, it is that they are the perfect ...
5 ways to align customer service and the product
"Your credit report has changed." That's the subject line of an email you receive from a popular credit monitoring service. Expecting praise for aggressively reducing your debt, you're surprised when ...
Guide on how to improve work productivity in your company
We all want to be productive and effective in everything we do, but when it comes to the people we're in charge of, this tends to get a bit complicated because we don't all have the same way of ...
10 signs to identify that your internal processes are failing
A company that has problems in its internal processes will find endless signs that will be displayed regularly, which is detrimental to the business. That is why it is necessary to carry out good ...
Guide: What are automations and how to create them on Monday.com?
Avoid manual work and learn to be 10 times more efficient in your work. Increase the efficiency and control of processes. Do you want to know how? Keep reading this guide because we tell you all ...
Take advantage of ultradian cycles to improve productivity
To get in tune, it is key to understand that as science advances, it has been discovered that the human brain does not work uniformly, it works in cycles. Although there are different types of cycles ...