Tag Archives: ROI

A three-step strategy to better energy management

As energy costs have continued to rise, the need for better energy management has increasingly been discussed in boardrooms up and down the land. However, it is often difficult for internal advocates to justify the ROI of such projects due to the insufficiency or inaccuracy of the data available. So much so that Garner suggests that ROI and conflicting priorities are seen as the top two challenges faced by over 40% of cases.

There is no doubt that data can be the proof point required. But how much onus should be placed on the business to establish the effective modelling strategies required to generate the requisite data to prove ROI and environmental benefits, and how much should be the energy supplier?

Measuring ROI: Importance, Experiences and Common Pitfalls

Making prudent investment decisions requires an understanding of how each project affects your balance sheet. Gaining a complete understanding of your financial status requires knowing the return on investment (ROI) of your ventures. Investors can utilise this information to make informed investment decisions for future projects, in addition to giving them useful insights into the profitability of present initiatives.

Measuring ROI: Importance, Experiences and Common Pitfalls

Making prudent investment decisions requires an understanding of how each project affects your balance sheet. Gaining a complete understanding of your financial status requires knowing the return on investment (ROI) of your ventures. Investors can utilise this information to make informed investment decisions for future projects, in addition to giving them useful insights into the profitability of present initiatives.

Why CRM (still) fails

CRM is a core component of the operational toolkit – even SME adoption levels have now reached 79%, according to a recent survey from Workbooks. And yet, CRM success rates are still too low. For every business achieving phenomenal business transformation, another will have wasted resources and seen zero return. 

As a mature market, there are countless CRM solutions now available, many of which are loaded with fantastic features and functionality. So what makes the difference between CRM failure and CRM success? As John Cheney, CEO of cloud-based CRM vendor Workbooks, explains, it isn’t the technology that delivers success – success can only be achieved if companies set clear business outcomes at the point of purchase. 

The Practical ROI of a quick Active Directory recovery

Instead, Sean Deuby, Director of Services, Semperis, looks at a few practical ways to see a return on your investment in ensuring a proper AD recovery, allowing you to do your own calculations and come to your own conclusions. Of course, losing one domain controller is a problem in itself, but let’s look at another increasingly common scenario that has catastrophic consequences: a ransomware attack that takes out every domain controller across all company sites. In that situation, recovering AD can be a white-knuckle, under-the-gun challenge.