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13/09/2013
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Eric Ries – The Lean Startup – A great book for any size company
The Lean Startup is, in Eric Ries own words, his effort to change how startups are built. As you may have guessed from the title, Eric Ries believes in lean manufacturing, by applying this to the field of entrepreneurship and innovation he attempts to reduce startups’ risk of failure. Billed as a must read for […]
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06/09/2013
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7 Ways Video Games Engage The Brain
Games have the power to motivate us, that makes them very powerful tools. By analysing them we can learn how they affect us, in many cases games teach us skills, when looking at how they do this we can learn about how we learn. Because video games record so much data about how we play […]
Continue readingMy Time as an e-Advantage Intern by Chris Brownings
For the last 10 months I have been an intern here at e-Advantage Solutions, working one day a week throughout my final year at university. I have now graduated from the University of Brighton where Pete is the entrepreneur in residence. As entrepreneur in residence Pete advertised the intern opportunity to a class of students […]
Continue readinge-Advantage Solutions at the University of Brighton Prize Giving Ceremony
On Friday 26 July we attended the prize giving ceremony for 2013 graduates of the University of Brighton Business School. The ceremony was held at the Sallis Benny Theatre in Brighton with record numbers of people attending. The Sallis Benny Theatre is in the centre of Brighton at Grand Parade. When not hosting the award […]
Continue readingManage your business goals with Zurmo
It’s important for people and businesses to have goals. They provide a way to measure our actual successes against our predicted or desired successes and can give you something to work towards. Goals are clearly an important aspect of business, and they can be measured in many different ways. Personal goals may be measured in […]
Continue readingZurmo keeps on giving
Zurmo CRM certainly don’t let up on adding new features, and with the recently released Zurmo 2.0 there is much to talk about. As you may have seen, we recently confirmed that we are Zurmo’s first UK partners, so we have been very excited to see what they have been working on. Version 2.0 has […]
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03/07/2013
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How to be a Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott – Book Review
After reading this book be prepared to be one of the most productive ninja’s you know! In this book Graham Allcott looks at how to manage our attitudes and attention, rather than our time. Allcott states we are in an age of “information overload” and his encouragement of a ninja like approach certainly makes the […]
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21/06/2013
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e-Advantage excited to be first UK Partner for Zurmo CRM
We are pleased to announce that Zurmo, Inc has partnered with e-Advantage Solutions Ltd as their first UK partner. Zurmo, Inc, based in Chicago, has created an open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application called Zurmo CRM, which is built around the concept of Gamification. e-Advantage helps organisations in the UK implement and run CRM […]
Continue readingAre Social Tools important within the workplace?
In a recent survey of 9,908 information workers in 32 countries, it was found that close to half of employees said social tools help increase their productivity. Furthermore, close to one-third said they would spend their own money to buy social tools for work. The survey found that many organisations underestimated the value of social […]
Continue readingCRM + Kanban = Zurmo
If you weren’t already aware, Kanban is a Japanese scheduling system for lean and just-in-time production. By taking a Kanban approach it means that demand is “pulled” through a production system based on the actual demand of customers. It is a relatively simple yet highly effective method. It works by having 3 (or more) “bins”, […]
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