Information technology in Micro and Small Businesses
Information
technology in Micro and Small Businesses
It has become utmost
important for all the Micro and small businesses to have Computers to
run their businesses. In most of the cases, the computers have simply
replaced the typewriters, and calculators, and are used to maintain
accounts and send communications to customers. In Engineering and
other areas there are some technical applications which are being
employed.
Is that all what the
computers can do? Most of these businesses have little time to focus
on this area, since the growth of the business and fire fighting take
priority.
In the first place we
have to identify the needs of the business and find out the areas
where the digitisation can be employed to make the process more
efficient. The challenges that may be faced in this process may be
paucity of funds to invest further if need be, training and
retraining the staff, besides investing time in finalising the needs,
identifying the right vendors who are capable of offering solutions
at the right price, and familiarising the staff to the changed
systems, besides a good planning of backup for the data.
The advantages could be
enormous starting from the enhanced image among the staff themselves,
customers and vendors. With more of automated working, monitoring the
work and process becomes easier. Reports will be available for the
asking. Communications with customers and vendors , and within will be more effective.
We can achieve speed,
accuracy, better analysis, increased data storage capacity when
compared to physical documents, reduction in the cost and space
requirements, increase in the performance of the
existing staff and
possible elimination of adding more hands than required.
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