E-businesses for those who have Brick & Mortar shops

If you have been considering getting onto eBay/Amazon, Gumtree or Shopify etc ... and you already have an existing shop you will find an online shopping cart a very low risk, high return investment and probably a no-brainer as you do not have the hassle of starting a brand new business!

This is particularly applicable to:

• Independent Shops
• Second-Hand Shops
• Merchants selling from home
• Part-time shops (e.g. those that go sell at Weekend Markets)

Similar principle to already owning valuable business documents before you implement SharePoint and migrate all your documents and lists to it:

https://productive-business.blogspot.com/2019/04/existing-documents-in-sharepoint.html

Existing Documents, Records in SharePoint

If you have large repositories of (which have a history of being physical):

• Microsoft Office Documents including
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Visio
• XML
• Text Files
• What might be termed 'SharePoint Records'
• PDF
• Picture files (.jpg, .png, tiff etc ...)
• Audio Files
• Video Files

which are valuable to your business, the only challenge then is to migrate these repositories into Document Centers, Record Centers ~ into SharePoint!



Your Return on Investment is then subject to:
https://productive-business.blogspot.com/2019/04/law-of-online-effort.html



And as you already have all of your data (as opposed for waiting a while for it to be created) you will get your ROI straight away!



You can also expand this to include existing:

1. Web Content Management Systems (e.g. Drupal, other open-source systems)
2. Already existing internal Wikis
3. Old Community Web Sites
4. Business Intelligence files (e.g. Crystal Reports from before)
5. etc ... 

The Law of Online Effort

Keep in mind when using Cloud based systems (be it Public Cloud or Private Cloud) the
General Rule:

The more effort you put in the higher the return ~ you put in what you expect to get out of it:

Facebook

More posts, more photos, adding more friends
Results in having more friends and meeting more people

LinkedIn

Adding job history, references, connections
This results in expanding your work network

Twitter

The more time you spend tweeting and following other people;

The more followers of your own you will have

eBay / Gumtree

More in the description, more photos, more traffic coming thru to look at the item
Results in the higher price for items being sold!

Blogger

More post, more traffic ...
Hence the more click-throughs!

SharePoint

More documents, more lists ... more business data inside SharePoint

This includes all of
https://productive-business.blogspot.com/2019/04/existing-documents-in-sharepoint.html


Higher business value derived from SharePoint.


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More to follow! Many systems out there - feel free to add to this list.

More functionality for Registers

With regards to these 2 Registers
https://productive-business.blogspot.com/2019/04/sharepoint-registers-child-protection.html
https://productive-business.blogspot.com/2019/04/schema.html

(and others) extra functionality can include:

• Workflows
• Business Intelligence
• Includes an Asbestos report of all incidences for a particular Building Site

Suspected Abuse (SharePoint) Register

This Register operates on a per Institution level basis e.g. school, church, community group etc ...

Another fairly complex Register with a fairly complex business ~
Reporting a Suspicion of Child Abuse! 

A suspicion of abuse is when someone has a reasonable suspicion that a child has suffered.

Adapted from:
https://www.qld.gov.au/community/getting-support-health-social-issue/support-victims-abuse/child-abuse/recognise-child-abuse

Use SharePoint Lists:
Risk of Abuse -> Custom List
Young Person -> Contact
Action Taken -> Issue Tracking

Extra functionality can include:

• A lookup from a Young Person to their Guardian
• More Issue Tracking to escalate up the Leadership Chain 
• etc ... 

Suspected Abuse Register Schema

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12pG92ShXXjGZPkN0v4hTgYBE2O4JINHD/view?usp=sharing

Also important to note different organisations will capture different information at differing times although they may be observing the same case of abuse (domestic violence at home, underage drug use etc ... )

Productivity Links on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_improving_technologies
also listed under
Productivity (Economic History)
as this is a focus of this Blog.

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