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The Business Cloud: How To Unlock Your Company's Untapped Potential

2017-05-31by Lizzie Weakley

Procedures, workflows and systems keep the cogs of business operations moving. They're essential. No business could function without them. It can take years to hone a process to near perfection. Once a process has scaled the Everest of efficiency, managers are loathe to make changes. Why fix something when it's not broken?

Anais Nin wrote, "Perfection is static, and I am in full progress." This applies to the business world, too. No business exists in a vacuum. It's affected by market forces, trends, news and many other things. To thrive, businesses must react and adjust. It cannot stay in a state of static perfection. It must change, improve, evaluate and begin the cycle all over again.

What happens when companies don't change? When systems and processes are riddled with workarounds because no one wants to make meaningful changes? It's like putting your employees into straitjackets; your departments into silos. On the surface, your business is steaming along on the right course. What you may not notice are the other companies passing you by. How are they doing it? These companies ditched the straitjackets and silos. They have embraced change.

The Change Initiative
More and more companies are evolving and moving business operations into the cloud using business management software. Their employees are communicating and collaborating better than ever. This is untapped potential finding expression and action.

(Communication + Collaboration + Cloud) = Potential Released Through Positive Change. It's that simple. In Right Scale's 2017 State of the Cloud report, 85% of enterprises surveyed had a cloud strategy in place or in the planning stages. Cloud computing is not a fad. It's a sound corporate strategy that could have tangible benefits for any company.

Communicate and Collaborate
In pre-Internet days, decisions could be made at a measured pace. This is because information was less accessible and dissemination was within a narrower field. With 24/7 news and social media today, the information flow can morph from a placid stream into a raging river within seconds.

Critical business intelligence must flow through a company with similar urgency. Decision makers must be updated and surveyed prior to reaching a decision. An improved platform for communication and collaboration should:
- Deliver data ahead of business needs.
- Allow for review and evaluation of outcomes.
- Quickly make employees aware of changes that affect them.
- Allow team members to share and discuss in a timely manner.
- Give the right tools to employees to complete tasks in the office or out in the field.

The Cloud Stratagem
Cloud computing has matured into a reliable, enterprise-level computing service. Unlike long-held corporate views, cloud computing is available to every business not just the Fortune 500. In fact, cloud-based applications can give small to medium businesses the same business intelligence (BI) capabilities as their larger counterparts.

One company helping businesses reach their full potential is Domo. Domo's Business Cloud has one mission - help businesses to optimize decision making and get positive results from strategic action. Domo's suite of BI applications paves the way forward. It can eliminate the glaring obstacles posed by older technology and outdated rigid processes.

Businesses only move in one direction - towards success. Wouldn't you rather be in the lead pack and not the last; a leader and not a straggler be? Stop standing still. Cut down the silos. Get rid of the straitjackets.

Make change a catalyst to real business improvement. Empower employees to see opportunities and take action in minutes not hours or days. Let it be smarter work not harder work. That's the real formula for success.

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