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Collaboration Tool: Collanos – Think out of the Inbox
Working together in a team environment is really challenging. You need to communicate well to get things done and complete the project. You need to assign tasks, share documents, share product ideas, track the progress, reassign the tasks and so on.

Retail Strategy
Retail Strategy is a combination of thought out plans, ideas and processes. The strategy revolves around 4 key areas:

Business Process Documentation
Running a business is like running a ship. You need to observe several factors internal and external and lay out your strategy to tackle them. The factors can be your products/services, customers, suppliers, rules and regulations governing your business, employees, competitors and the list go on and on.

Opensource Solutions Directory
I am quite a big fan of Opensource Applications.
Here are some of the URLs that link to Opensource Solutions:
Google Directory: http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Open_Source/Software/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages
Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms

Record Keeping - Why is it necessary?
- Good records provide the financial data that help you operate more efficiently, thus increasing your profitability. Accurate and complete records enable you, and your accountant, to identify all your business assets, liabilities, income and expenses. That information, when compared to appropriate industry averages, helps you pinpoint both the strong and weak phases of your business operations

Software Selection
Well, software selection is really a tough task. Be it an ERP, CRM or BI software. Experts advise to follow a structured methodology for selecting the right software. Here it goes:
1. Identify your needs and document those
2. Circulate Request for Information to the vendors and ask them to provide product information
3. Evaluate vendor responses to the RFI
4. Shortlist a few vendors (at least 10) based on the RFI
5. Make a request for proposal and circulate it to the shortlisted vendors

