a. Be a great test environment

b. Be a great backup solution

c. Completely replace your existing infrastructure

d. All of the above

a. An app that acts as a scanner

b. An app that magnifies documents

c. An app that posts photos to social media

Answer:

a. An app that acts as a scanner

Winner:

Congratulations go to

Deb Mallory

Mr's Gerry's Kitchen, Inc.

who won the Avengers USB Drive Set

From a work perspective, we continue to be very busy at ABC.  We started something new this year with our budgeting process and I wanted to share in case this would be helpful to your business.  We do an annual budget and have 12 months in our system but, instead of an annual review and budget update, we will now do our budget review and update twice a year.  Basically we replace the next 6 months with new data and extend our budget 6 more months.  It's not ideal from the standpoint of the extra work for the management team during the summer but I believe we will see great benefits.
 

When it comes to what businesses desire of their staff, phrases commonly heard are "shared vision", "focus", "on the same page" and "execution". At ABC we strive for this ourselves.  Our budgeting process is all about the business decisions and assumptions to accomplish our goals, so the sheer process really allows us to hit all of these phrases.  The end result is a more accurate picture of the next 6 months, as well as allowing our headlights to shine another 6 months out - we now have a view of the first half of 2015 and can extrapolate the whole year.  In the past, we all had some ideas of next year but really didn't come together as a shared vision until the end of the year (sometimes January).
We're early on with this change but really enjoy what we have seen thus far - perhaps this will be helpful to you?