It’s
been a busy few months here at Idealogy and I’m not talking from a ‘we’ve had
loads of work” point of view – although, it would be worth pointing out here
that we have had lots of work to do!!
No,
I’m talking from a back office point of view; the part of the business that
people from the outside rarely get a glimpse of!
As
the regular readers amongst you will know, we entered our 25th year
of business last year – an impressive feat for any business in this day and age
– and, having used our old Management System for the past 10 years, it was
starting to feel rather antiquated! In order to grow and further evolve, we
needed key information at our fingertips quicker than roadrunner dodging one of
Wile. E. Coyote’s ACME anvils. If we were going to make it another 25 years,
there was only one thing for it; we were going to need a new way of doing
things!
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| Out with the old and in with the new... |
So,
we set about doing our research, talking to people we knew who used different
systems and, in some cases the same system but a different version, to discover
what was out there and what would suit our needs. I won’t bore you with the
details, but suffice to say, we whittled away until we got what we needed – an
enterprise-wide CMS - and have been steadily making the transition over the
past two/three months.
Whether
you are a client or a supplier, the eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed a
change in our quotes, invoices and/or purchase orders – if you haven’t, I lay
money on the fact that you’ll have a closer look when you next receive one! –
as these are probably the only indicators of change that someone outside of the
business would have.
It’s
been a hectic period as we’ve learned the new system whilst still working in
the old one and slowly (but surely) we’ve started to make the transition over,
but all the blood, sweat and tears are starting to pay off and with each week
that passes we’re one step closer to being fully integrated.
With
key business information now at our fingertips we can safely, and hopefully surely
say ‘Here’s to the next 25 years!”…
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