Whether you call it remote working or telecommuting, one thing’s for sure: working outside the traditional office environment is more popular than ever.

This is an account of how one office manager prepared her team for the festive season rush.

SMBs have their own kinds of challenges and can prove highly sensitive to fluctuating market conditions. They can also be dynamic, fast-growing and innovative. Whatever the circumstances, they require great leadership – yet many business owners come close to sinking their own ship.

Small and medium-sized enterprises need all the tools in their utility belts to optimise efficiency and grow. With a small taskforce the work of every employee is magnified. This being the case it’s vital that each member of a team is not only satisfying their role but excelling in their position. To do this, companies need to be using the best available tools and on the market.

Working online should in principle be no different from working offline in the same office, in terms of the outcomes. Having the right approach and using good tools can make the difference between a smoothly running organisation and a series of ‘rabbit-in-the-headlight’ moments.

Security is very often at the forefront of concerns when moving over to a cloud computing solution. Here, it is a common misconception that cloud storage, though practical, requires some kind of compromise over security.

The ease of life brought to us by online management software is a relatively new luxury. Its nascent relationship with companies means that CEOs are still working out how to best integrate these new tools into their companies.

Businesses are increasingly turning to cloud computing to help them manage their documents, offering them a more financially viable way to conduct essential operations than having a complex internal system that requires space, training, and possibly a whole IT department.

When planning any important activities, projects or the future of our organisations, the historic approach has always been to set long term goals. We determine where we want to be in say, 3 or 5 years’ time, and set our plans accordingly.

Project Management, sounds easy enough right? Just keep track of the work of a bunch of staff members, communicate with clients and create nice looking report – easy.