Are you using a management system which is great but possibly old or outdated?
It is often the case that agencies feel their system is not
broken and see no need to consider change… but possibly the reality is
that it is! Express Systems consult with many agencies who have
‘systems’ only to find that a large percentage of the management
information is being generated
in excel outside of the system and either there is considerable
duplication of entry or there are gaps where some information from some
staffing areas do not merge. A good Agency management system should
deliver the management information and not be re-keyed in excel which
we all know is very time consuming.
Sometimes it is worth just looking at systems in the marketing
place as it will educate you on what you system should or won’t do. I
know that the old saying ‘why fix it if it is not broken’ is true but
also consider the time and ease of use of your system… How about asking
” is there another way of doing it?”
And possibly bring to mind another old expression ‘if you keep
doing what you have always done, you will keep on getting what you have
always got”. Change is good and you never know what might happen!