A hundred years ago, the only way a manager could track an employee’s productivity was to pull up their time card and check their punch-in and -out activity. The only way an accounting team could stay on top of their general ledger’s trial balance was to manually pencil in dates and balances, and then painstakingly punch everything into a calculator. And the only way salespeople chose what leads to pursue was by relying on their own intuition, and an imperfect paper-based contact list.

Times have changed. And with it, so has the nature of business practices. Technology has automated and optimized processes in every department of an organization, allowing for better productivity and ROIs. This post will look at three different departments – sales, management and accounting – and discuss the most pivotal technologies a small business can deploy in each.

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