Choosing the Best Company Intranet Software to Increase Team Productivity

Remote team collaboration: Choosing the best company intranet software to increase team productivity, Fishbowl Blog

Overseeing team collaboration in a world where remote work is increasingly common can feel like fighting an uphill battle. One of the barriers to productivity is not having everyone on the same intranet infrastructure, which can lead to frustration as well as fragmentation.

Thankfully, with the right business-focused intranet software, you can overcome many common obstacles and streamline collaboration, even when remote members of the team you lead are involved. So how can you go about choosing the perfect intranet package? Let’s dive in.

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How to Build and Lead a Strong Team by John Choate

John Choate is a presenter at the Inventory Management + Growth Summit.

John Choate is the Managing Director of SA-720TM Strategies, a consulting firm providing seminars on cross-functional teamwork and strategic planning based on principles derived from the U.S. Special Operations community and successfully employed in the corporate world.

He began his professional career as a naval officer in the SEAL teams. Following completion of training as the officer-in-charge of SEAL training class 218, he spent the next 12 years in both active and reserve billets deploying overseas in support of national security objectives.

In addition to receiving various personal awards for classified special operations, more significantly his operational teams have received numerous distinguished awards. These include three Navy Unit Commendation medals, two Meritorious Unit Commendation medals, and the Presidential Unit Citation personally awarded to his SEAL platoon by the President of the United States.

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4 Practical Results of Managing Inventory with Real-Time Analytics

Real-time analytics help with inventory management, Fishbowl Blog
Real-time analytics help with inventory management, Fishbowl Blog

Real-time analytics might conjure up search engines and purely online connotations in one’s mind, but they also relate in profoundly important ways to inventory management. Today’s inventory management software uses real-time analytics via barcode scanners, in-depth reports, software integrations, and other automated tools to streamline business processes and ensure data accuracy.

Fishbowl is the #1 warehouse manufacturing and management software for QuickBooks, and it has helped numerous small and medium-size businesses improve their bottom line with real-time analytics. Here are four real-life results of using Fishbowl in different types of businesses.

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Manual vs. Automatic Customer Emails

How will ending U.S. Postal Service's mail delivery on Saturdays affect businesses? Fishbowl Inventory Blog
Sending emails to customers is a great way to reach out to them when you have something important to tell them, such as when you’ve shipped their order. There’s a manual and an automatic way to make sure these emails get sent, and we’re going to address which one works better. (more…)

The Simplest Way to Make Customers Happy

Listening ear, Fishbowl Inventory Blog
The simplest way for a business to make its customers happy is to genuinely listen to what they have to say. Talk to them. Call them up. Email them. Meet with them in person. Do whatever they feel comfortable doing. This will help you not only build relationships with your customers, but it will also give you ideas on how to improve your business that you otherwise might have missed. (more…)