Ten Steps to Best Business are strategies for business information management for any business wanting to establish best practice. The steps create an intelligent network with no software or equipment upgrades. This is about business management best practice and taking care of the most valuable asset of any business - its business information. It is about policy, training, resources and security.

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3. 21st century business management

4. the world's best-kept business secret

5. a new and powerful way of managing a business

6. by creating a structure for information

7. and using the structure to develop and apply policy

8. and using the structure to collect and distribute training

9. and using the structure to collect and distribute resources and knowledge

10. when and wherever needed and in a manner never before available

11. 21st century business management

12. any business

13. anywhere

14. of any kind

15. Ten Steps to Best Business

16. strategies for

22. your business

23. or your business

24. or your business

25. making the connection

26. between how the business is managed

27. and the way that all business information is used to manage the business

28. best practice in business information management

29. means that every business knows

34. most business don’t have the answers to these questions

35. and if they do they will have some real concerns

36. because nine times out of ten their business is in a mess

37. on the business computer

38. and everywhere

39. Ten Steps to Best Business is not about software and systems

40. But it is about best practice

41. best practice is about good management

42. good management is about information organization

43. for many managers, disasters come as a real surprise Disaster !!!!!

44. and nobody knows who to blame who is to blame?

45. the power of order and control of business information is the world's best-kept business secret

46. there has never ever been a technology like this to transfer policy to compliance

47. and, by the way

48. order and control is a huge bonus for any manager

49. it will cost very little to introduce and use

50. but it could save millions

51. businesses that have taken on this way of managing have discovered the secret of best practice

52. and have maximized their investment in training

53. and have greater access to expensive resources

54. and have created a huge index to their business knowledge

55. everything a business needs to renovate their practices is readily available

56. there are two books

59. see www.tensteps.com.au for details about the books and free materials to download such as

62. and ten steps for a business to take

63. a free and powerful management tool

64. training and empowering business owners and senior managers

65. supporting the work of IT personnel

66. and information management officers

67. and trainers

68. for any type of business

69. free to use and free to share

70. creating an information revolution

71. that leads to business best practice

72. with new roles for information managers

73. happy owners and managers

74. it’s your business

75. it’s your time

76. it’s your move

77. ten steps to best business

78. Step 1 Create a profile of all of your business information that gets created, collected, stored or accessed and used by the business.

79. Step 2 Produce a blueprint or roadmap for locating every bit of information based on what the business does now and what it wants for the future.

80. Step 3 Establish procedures to create principles to policy to compliance and determine where and how to make these known through the structure and on the network.

81. Step 4 Set up management routines for the structure integrity, folder management and file naming principles.

82. Step 5 Set up plans for concentrated monitoring and reviewing of the network and its contents, ensuring that the work is aligned to the aims, objectives and policy of the business.

83. Step 6 Create and position, using the new structure and the network, appropriate guides to the use of business information with appropriate notes and redirections to be made accessible to all personnel.

84. Step 7 Establish procedures to implement the new structure and arrange for staff to move files and save copies of edited files to the new structure. Create a plan to create archives for old files.

85. Step 8 Train personnel to use the new network, to contribute to maintenance of the structure and to monitor its use and the integrity of the information it contains.

86. Step 9 Set up strategies for adding and making accessible any training, resources and knowledge. Make arrangements for these to be monitored.

87. Step 10 Set up procedures required to periodically review the way that the business uses its network to support business operations, in order to manage its business information and with a view to having the structure match the direction being taken by the business.

88. These ten steps are covered in more detail in a publication to download from the website http://www.tensteps.com.au

89. nothing happens

90. unless you make it happen

91. and keep making it happen

92. do nothing

93. and everything stays the same

94. the world’s best-kept business secret

95. is about order and control and the intelligent network

96. it’s about greater productivity and the economic bottom line

97. it’s about greater security

98. that’s about greater security in your business

99. it’s about what you do

100. The next step is there for you to take. Now it’s over to you . Ten Steps Business Publications & Renovate a Business