What a week!

It's finally the end of a totally full on week - in fact probably the most incredible week I've had in business.

The implementation of our new Jim2 management system has gone really well with everybody knuckling down and tackling it full on. It's simply quite amazing what a positive impact a great management system can have on a business.

Jim allows us to track service and sales jobs as they are initiated, quotes and stock on purchase. It's giving us much greater visibility of what's going on overall.

I got really excited yesterday & today when Ian was showing me how particular tasks can be "processed" into defined steps so there are checks and measures for them. This paves the way for better quality control and reporting - how sweet!!

We had a large shipment of servers & related items come in today and once received it was a very simple task to see the status of these items for the project at hand - what was still on backorder and even the serial number of those items that have come into stock. So much better than the way we used to do things.

I'm not saying Jim is the answer to all your business issues, but rather than you really need to find systems for defining processes, checks & measures in order to make your business propell itself forward. This is, I know, going to make us so much better at what we do, and more professional in having more visibility of what's going on.

I can see that my life will be mine again (well....it'll be my wife's anyway  )

Just imagine being about to provide much better consistency and have predictability with processes as they are undertaken....it's like a dream come true (I know... I sound really "sad" don't I!!).

Anyway, the point is finding the right solution for your business is important when you want to grow it from being a "job" to a "business". Whether Jim2 is the right tool for you or not is irrelevant - you just need to find it. That being said, have a look at it (www.happen.biz) - it's really quite incredible what it can do.