Often managements do months of work in planning and implementing business changes across the organization or team. But many of these changes never get good response from employees, who were supposed to implement the change. There are different factors which governs a employees resistance. Some common negative reactions are noted below.

• Unwillingness to adopt a new change. They think world is perfect in present situation.
• Feeling awkward in learning new things. Often they face a situation with pre-decisions.
• Fear of adoption to change because of fear of loss. They are doubtful peoples who are not sure about achieving the goal.
• Fear to loss some thing. This is an interesting and common thing; many peoples resist changes only because they have to loss some silly habits or benefits, even if bigger things they can achieve with the change.
• Loneliness. Many employees think the change can most inversely affect them; even if that make same effect on all (most) team members.
• Jealousness. Yes, this is true; many employees won’t adopt a change just because it is most beneficial for one or more of his team members.
• Fear of adoption to change in assumption of resource problems. Many staff underestimate the resource they got.
• Opposition against pressure. Fighting against pressure factors is a basic human nature, but some persons go to the extremes.

Software-as-a-Service products offer a wide range of advantages to small businesses. But there are many things to be considered before going to subscribe to a SaaS solution to fulfill your business requirements.

1. Suitability of the SaaS system – Although SaaS solutions can replace most on-premise solutions, SaaS evolution is still its early days, and subscribing to highly complex solutions without enough resources can cause problems.
2. Total cost of ownership and ROI – these two are always big factors. Compare the total cost of ownership of SaaS and On-premise solutions over a period of time. One thing to be noted is most on-premise solutions may require a replacement or major costly update after a period of time (usually after 2 or 3 years).
3. Data security, data ownership and data sharing – Info is the success determining factor, every one want to secure it with highest grade of protection. Check for vendor policies.
4. Integration issues and add-ons – SaaS solutions, as offered online, offer decreased integration with in-house and off-line systems. Integration capability differs greatly among systems, and free trails are best way to analyze that.
5. Scalability and adaptation to company environment. Analyze that your system can cope with your growing demands and changing strategies.

Security of valuable data is always one of the first priorities in modern business practices. Big companies having enough capital and technical support can ensure better data security by implementing in-house systems. Small and midsize companies never can thought in that way as this may eat up most of their income. For SMBs, better option is Software as a Service (SaaS).

There are many advantages of using SaaS products for SMB data security.

1. Better security than normal SMB set-up. SaaS vendors use most advanced systems.
2. Data accessibility around the world, around the clock.
3. No cost purchase and implementation.
4. Better data encryption techniques for data transfer and storing.
5. Regular data back-up, which is hard to find in a SMB setup.
6. Decreased demands of technical staff, most SaaS security systems are easily configurable.
7. Predictable costs, as these systems are priced on monthly basis; and also no maintenance costs.
8. Free dynamic software and system updates by vendors.

Studies have shown that by 2018, more than 65% of total data security market will be occupied by SaaS solutions. But there are many things to be considered before going to SaaS way, which we will discuss tomorrow.

Do you feel your office is some what dumpy? Or is not customer/employee friendly? Or is not suiting your business style? Then it may be time to re-designing or upgrading your office appearance. Here are some tips for office appearance management.

• Design your office in a way that suits your business.
• There must be sufficient space available for each employee and customer even in peak hours.
• There should be proper filing system, which store more than sufficient files, can help in finding files easily, which take least space and which wont make any hindrance to see, to move, to talk and to work.
• There must be proper places allocated for filing, visitors, computers and cables, phones, papers, wastes, etc.
• If your business require too much direct customer interaction in office, then your office must be spacious; must have one front office executive directing customers to appropriate persons, and must have persons facing customers.
• If your office is of above type and customers needs to wait to receive the product/service, there must be properly arranged places (and furniture) where customers can spend time without pain.
• It is better to keep unwanted things (like power units, old files, server, maintenance tools, product unit, etc.) out-off your main office room.

Yesterday we blogged about the steps involved in business team building. Today we continue that talk here are some tips fore making your team building practices easy and effective.

• Give them one simple goal to achieve at a time.
• Assist team-members in better planning strategies to achieve the goal.
• Clearly define jobs for each team-member.
• Make them passionate about there job, this is the most difficult task a leader have to take. Invent ideas to do so.
• Assist team members in taking the ‘right decision’; not short-cuts.
• Make them confident. Educate each member about their strengths and weaknesses, and tell how they can increase strengths and hide weaknesses by doing as a team.
• Assist them in taking risky decisions; make them feel that you are always behind them. Or as they say “Make them free their minds.”
• Let them make their own way; no successful team can be a copy of other. Blinding following a person or team will destroy the future of team/business.
• Prevent them from taking bad decisions; over-confidence is a dangerous thing than no-confidence.
• Keep them upbeat. This is one another difficult task. Remember true performance come under pressure.

We all know the importance of team work in an enterprise’s success. The whole enterprise in fragmented into small teams - like the tissues in our body, every team perfectly completes the work/job assigned to them, and the company will virtually benefit. Here is a step by step team-building strategy.

• Step 1 Choosing right team members: Any person who is willing to learn and work with others can be a good team member. But also remember, special tasks may need special skills.
• Step 2 Educating team members: About the advantages they get by being a team member, the goals they can achieve, respecting team members, against whom they are competing, and how they can accomplish a task successfully.
• Step 3 Knowing the team-members: Starting something can always produce some initial failures. There can be issues among team members. Solve problems and give them time, they will come up united.
• Step 4 Constantly challenge them: No good thing can last long with out proper maintenance. Regularly challenge your team’s strengths by giving them tasks to accomplish. Applauded them on their achievements and enquire why they fail in some thing.
• Step 5 Lead them in-style: Leadership is very important. Leaders should carefully listen and interact with team-members. His/her decisions must be in team’s favor and he/she must fight against the world for the team’s favor.

Today we can find a wide range of web based products, or SaaS products, around us. Many small businesses managers have subscribed to these solutions for making them business profitable. Reports also show that small and medium businesses (SMBs) are the main beneficiaries of web based solutions, and these systems are becoming tremendously popular.

There are many reasons that SMBs prefer web based systems over traditional or on-premise ones.

• No purchasing costs and installation costs.
• No database or extensive infrastructure requirements.
• Round the clock accessibility around the globe.
• No maintenance fee or update costs.
• Free software updates.
• No requirement of in-house technical teams.
• Fixed/easy-to-estimate monthly usage costs.
• Easiest accessibility on mobile and handheld devices.
• Reduced communication costs.
• No time lag in for software installation.
• Simple interfere powered by advanced programming languages.
• Web based database, constantly updated, monitored with frequent back-up.
• Better data security compared to SMB environment.
• Digitalization of enterprise data.
• Increased availability of integrated packages, with other web-based solutions.
• Bette adoption rate among employees.
• Easy to get out from the use.