[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=""][text_output]As a business owner, one of your main priorities should be to ensure that you are spending your money wisely and controlling costs effectively. But how can this be done? In this blog post, we'll explore strategies for effective spending and cost control in businesses, so you can make sure you're getting the most bang for your buck. Read on to learn more! Defining Effective Spending and Cost Control Strategies To effectively manage finances, it is important to have a clear understanding of where money is being spent and how. Taking control over spending can help to ensure that

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=""][text_output]The Steward also boasts a subset of our Business Intelligence solution, DynaCubes, a revolutionary tool giving you access to an almost infinite number of reports and queries, available at the push of a button. The full DynaCubes Business Intelligence Suite is also available as an option. In short, The Steward guarantees an excellent ROI in an “Office 2019” like environment; its users (Major Banks and Finance institutions) have reported up to 30% reduction in their administrative and telephone costs. Another feature included in The Steward, our “forms based auditing feature” releases your team and provide a complete audit trail,

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Dealing with Third Parties"][text_output]Purchase orders waiting to be sent to your suppliers, internal consumption items needing to be delivered to your departments or employees also trigger alarms and alerts. These alerts are customizable and are very easy to setup. Another important module is the Enterprise Asset Manager, coupled with a sophisticated Computerized Maintenance Management System, allowing your team to procure assets, depreciate them, maintain them either in house or through a sophisticated Contract Management System. Looking for an end to the never ending spiral of maintenance costs, trust the Computerised Maintenance Management System of The Steward to allow your

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Cost Control"][text_output]The Steward, our Cost Control Application provides your business with a solution to control and impute your administrative costs to the departments that have consumed them. It also offers as an option a complete Supply Chain Management to serve your staff base. The Steward boasts an entire procurement process, with pricing history and flexible category management.The cycle ends with sophisticated Accounts Payable and Treasury modules. By keeping track of expenses made for professional reasons, and those made for private purposes, recovering or charging the department of the person responsible for the spend is simple and straightforward. Time on

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Your Administration Expenses"][text_output]Your business faces growing consumables, communication, assets depreciation and maintenance costs. Part of this expense is for services to customers while the other part is use by staff. Often, when consumables used are not controlled, a trend sets in your environment. People become less careful with items that are made available to use on an everyday basis. In addition, time spent on the telephone is a resource cost to your business. Staff may be spending time, responding to requests made by your customers. They can also be making personal phone calls during business hours. These overheads, if

[vc_row][vc_column][text_output]In the clas­si­fied sec­tion of a daily news­pa­per an advert­ise­ment reads: “Old prob­lem look­ing for a way out”. If I find a solu­tion to that old prob­lem, do I become part of the “cre­at­ive” group of humans? If I spend time and energy, elab­or­at­ing this new solu­tion and then stop, will I have reached my goal? I would think not. The answer I have worked so hard to elab­or­ate needs also to be eleg­ant, uncom­mon, unique and should enjoy sim­ple qual­it­ies to con­vert and be adop­ted. I could have also come across a bril­liant idea acci­dent­ally and the eureka moment will then be at hand. When we look back

[vc_row][vc_column][text_output]Hello, my name is Carla and believe it or not, I am not a girl. I am not a cat either, nor a domest­ic anim­al with a girl’s name. I am an applic­a­tion! My cre­at­or had the puerile idea of using an acronym , (a word formed from the ini­tials or oth­er parts of sev­er­al words), to name me. He used the ini­tials of Call Accounting & Resource Logging Application, and I was born! For those who believe in rein­carn­a­tion, you might say that this is my third ‘renais­sance.’ I first appeared on a rocky beach a few kilo­met­ers south

[vc_row][vc_column][text_output]Every once in a while a great ques­tion is asked, and the imme­di­ate reac­tion of people listen­ing to the con­ver­sa­tion will say:“That’s it! You have hit the nail on the head!” Strange thing is that the answer to the ques­tion is not forth­com­ing, it only opens the door to a bet­ter under­stand­ing of the prob­lem. It steers the con­ver­sa­tion towards uncharted ter­rit­ory, with excit­ing and unex­pec­ted end results. In a great book by Peter F. Hamilton, the Silfen, an elf-​like race, choose to wander across uncharted alien worlds on Paths. New paths open upon reach­ing a des­tin­a­tion, trans­form­ing their jour­ney

[vc_row][vc_column][text_output]People think that you are doing noth­ing if they don’t know what you are doing! A good friend of mine, not the talk­at­ive type, mind you, came up with this say­ing one even­ing I was com­plain­ing that very few people appre­ci­ated what I did. This encour­aged me to start this blog, to share what I was doing, and to talk about my likes and dis­likes. Although my job takes most of my time, I find it excit­ing to read — all types of mater­i­als — and be sur­prised by the nev­er end­ing ingenu­ity and some­times stu­pid­ity of man­kind. On this trail, I came across an inter­est­ing book by Richard Koch

[vc_row][vc_column][text_output]I am a busy exec­ut­ive. The bank has put me in charge of its admin­is­trat­ive affairs. When I took the job, I ima­gined my day as a sequence of well-ordered steps, cul­min­at­ing in mat­ter of fact decisions with clock­work pre­ci­sion. It is 8:30 in the morn­ing. Monday. The week­end is behind us. Lunch was nice in the little res­taur­ant in the hills. The phone rings. Joe, the down­town branch man­ager is inter­rupt­ing my email sort­ing ses­sion. “I have a prob­lem with the air con­di­tion­ing equip­ment, the day is going to be hot!” I won­der why Joe has called me dir­ectly, the head of main­ten­ance is the