Kathleen Quinn Votaw has done an excellent job capturing and sharing just one idea that the Denver SMB community can grab onto that will help strengthen their business. Now is the time to enable and create organizational capabilities that position companies to succeed before the market gains momentum and SMBs are once again scrambling to successfully scale their business.
This article also points to the need for technology enablement. Creating policy rooted statistical validation of cost savings is a first step; and as Kathleen points out, communication and performance monitoring and measurement are important components as well.
However, it also requires the development and management of congruent business processes married with technology that helps protect business assets. Many business owners are likely to see and believe the value of programs such as telecommuting and flex time, but in the same breah, may also be very afraid of the potential consequences such programs can create to their business. This potiential concern is valid, but can be resolved for each SMB's unique set of business requirements. The key is to identify the business requirements.
iTruss Solutions has developed an SMB technolgoy platform, called and iTruss Groundwork, that bridges this issue so that the benefits of productivity gains can be realized while mitigating risks and protecting the company's valuable assets that make it unique to and successful in its particular market.
