A few different ways to use technology to GROW your business. First and foremost, understand what type of technology you're focusing on.

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6. Technology Expectations
✓ Speed ✓ Accuracy
✓ Collaboration ✓ Standards
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8. Reason #1
We don’t
BUDGET properly!

9. $1,500/employee
in 1987

10. $5,100/employee
in 2004

11. 2009?
we’ll know soon

12. Reason #2
Lack of Strategy

13. Reason #3
We ask the
WRONG questions?

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15. Reason #4
Endless Supply of Tools

17. ✓ Not all IT is alike
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19. “This classification
allows us to understand
which technology we
must invest in as well as
what we should do to
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✓ Experimentation
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✓ Microsoft Office ✓ PhotoShop
• Open Office • Picnik
• Zoho • Pixelmator
• Google Docs • Aviary
✓ To-do Lists ✓ Analytics
• TaDa List • Google Analytics
• Things App • AWstats
• Remember the Milk • Omniture

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✓ Fostering emergence
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✓ Wiki ✓ Twiddla.com
✓ BaseCamp ✓ Box.net
✓ Campfire ✓ Blogging
✓ Skype ✓ ZoHo
✓ IM • Meeting
✓ Twitter • Planner
✓ Facebook ✓ etc...
✓ LinkedIn
✓ Adobe Connect
✓ Email

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✓ Redesigning business process
✓ Standardizing workflow
✓ Monitoring activities & events
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46. Example Tools
EIT
✓ CRM ✓ CMS
✓ POS
• ZoHo
• Highrise
✓ ERP
• SugarCRM
✓ IntraNET
• Salesforce
✓ Daylight
✓ Exchange (or Zimbra)
✓ etc...
✓ Harvest Time App

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51. How do I
manage this?

52. Manage
organizational
change, not IT
installation

53. Selection
Exploration Adoption

55. The take Away
focus on your business

56. at the end of the day
don't let technology
choose you, choose the
technology that will
grow your business

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