Business Improvement -
For Small and Medium Sized Businesses!

This Online Service provides Business Improvement Tools, Knowledge, Tips and Business Analysis for businesses which have between 1 and 500 employees (including yourself). If your business has more employees, than this service is not made for your business.

You have a Small or Medium Sized Business? Great! Read on to learn more about our Service and how it could help you to improve your business...

For Offline and Online Businesses...

... no matter which industry your business is in. This Online Service could be used by Startups, small company groups, small businesses no matter of industry and from Consultants or Accountants, if they like to offer extra services to their clients.

It's for everyone who has a small or medium sized business. It doesn't matter who you are, a absolute newbie or a veteran, it's just what you need to improve your business. It's suitable for Online and Offline Businesses.

What "Business Improvement" really means

Well, the term "Business Improvement" refers to methods which aim to increase the perfomance of businesses. This could include activities to gain more sales or more profit. Furthermore, it also means to have more efficient and effective ways to perform work in business operations.

Doing things more efficient and effective will have a positive impact on your business profits as well. As you could imagine, if you could perform work faster and more reliable, then you could process more Volume, thus increasing your profits.

Methods for Business Improvement could focus on improving business processes, business analysis or just the interaction between employees.

But where to start? And how?

Start here... Get your Members Account

As soon as a question about Business Improvement arises, that's the moment where you could jump over to this Online Service. Login to your Members Account to find new ideas, to analyse your business or even read the one or the other article to get a view from a different angle.

Want a Membership-Account right now? Click here to go to the Membership-Options Page and select the Membership which suites your needs.

Get a complete View of your Business

Every business must be seen as a full and complete organism. As of this, it is not enough to only review the financial situation of your business. It's important to recognize all perspectives, which influence the progress of your business.

Don't rely on past oriented data, such as from Accounting alone. Even if most businesses prepare financial statements regularly to comply with record-keeping requirements. Using these financial statements as a sole resource to analyse the performance of businesses is not a good practise.

It is not wrong to review financial statements, but it's just a portion of what is necessary to get a complete view of the actual business situation.

Financial Statements just represent a documentation of past business activities! Don't get me wrong, Financial Statements are important and could serve as a decisive help for the management. But they have a backward oriented view. You only need to monitor a few important numbers to have a complete view of your business situation.

Thus you could recognize sales collapse, cost increases, quality declines or liquidity bottlenecks with just a few numbers. By the way, the information you need to use are not coming from your Accounting or Financial Statements alone.

Consider using business ratios in your reports, which reflect the law of cause and effect. Wanting to have more Sales, don't starts with having more Sales. Sales are just a result. Measure what is prior to the Sales. That's what will provide you with a more complete view of your Business.

This is a part of what is offered by this Online Service. Furthermore, you will gain more knowledge about the dependencies between actions and results.

Interactive...
- Build it, Use it, Enhance it... Be Part of it! -

As you are increasing your knowledge by using our Online Service. We will additionally gain more knowledge, which will be taken to enhance this Service.

You are the most important person for us. We hear what you are saying and we will do our Best to help you succeed.

Therefore this Business Improvement Online Service is being extended depending on your interests and by what we believe will help you.

This is not another Social Media Platform nor is it a link directory or bookmarking site or what ever other sites are about. This is and will stay a Service, which provides information about Business Improvement and additional services around this Topic.

You are able to suggest additions to available Business Analysis, to suggest new kinds of Business Analysis or other Services you like to have. We will see how it fits into this service.

So, Build it with us, use it and be part of it...

Member Benefits you profit from

Sometimes it could be hard to stay focused on the improvement of your business. You might face many different things at the same time and get confused by which to get done first.

If you focus on one item at a time, you must be certain, that you focus at the right item of business improvement. If you are able to track all things while improving your business, than it isn't needed being sure to focus on the right one.

You benefit from this Service by:

• staying focused with your business improvement
  
• not to miss anything important
  
• getting a view from a different angle
  
• giving you ideas what to improve and how
  
• providing you the tools/analysis to recognize all major impacts on your business development

This is your source of ideas for business improvement and business analysis.

Various Business Analysis included

There are numerous tools/analysis out there, which help you to gain knowledge about the strength and weaknesses of your business. From these numerous options available, the Strategic Balance is one which is fast and easy. Because of that, the Strategic Balance is included in all Memberships.

The Strategic Balance or Strategic Bottleneck Analysis, represents an instrument, which allows to compile strategically important present and future bottlenecks of an enterprise without large preparation in a simple way.

To apply the Strategic Balance neither extensive methodical knowledge nor intense training is necessary. It positively emphasize the obligation to think in present and future values as well as to concentrate on bottlenecks and their removal.

The concentration of existing resources on the removal of bottlenecks avoids frittering away.

The ERS/B (Early-Recognition-System with Benchmarking - a Balanced-Scorecard like Analysis) is a reporting system using 30 business ratios (KPI: Key Performance Indicator) reflecting the impact on business development from various parts of an enterprise.

Business ratios are sorted by their temporal occurence to 3 analysis areas. This provides businesses with the possibility to react promptly on bottlenecks in their business operation.

As financial and non-financial business ratios are taken into the Analysis, the management of any business don't depends on past values alone, as such coming from the Accounting System.

A short reporting cycle allows a fast intervention at erroneous trends. Within the Analysis (tables and diagrams) traffic light systematic ( red - yellow - green ) is showing where the largest weaknesses are found.

Also the recommendations for actions/measures obtained from the Analysis are provided with traffic light signals. Click here for more information about Business Analysis...

Analysis are enhanced regularly and the number of available analysis will be extended from time to time.

Checklists and Templates to Download

You have access to Templates and Checklists, depending on the Membership you have selected. All Templates are concentrated on business management topics, such as business early-warning, controlling and simplification of workflows or how to improve your business.

Checklists help you to prepare negotiations, meetings or assist you in analysing your business as easy and effective as possible. They may also help you to secure your business, as the Emergency-Checklist, which shows you how to setup an Emergency Plan to secure the existence of your business.

The Templates for Riskmanagement helps you to evaluate the Risks involved in your business operation. As well as other templates are helping you to review your Accounts Receivables or help you to collect your Receivables faster. And that's not all...

Articles / eBooks about Business Management Topics

A part of our Service about Business Improvement is based on Articles and eBooks. Depending on your Membership, you have access to more or less Articles and eBooks. Articles and eBooks are kept short to allow you to retrieve information as fast as possible.

Furthermore, most of the eBooks are bundled with the relevant templates, to get you started with your business improvement immediately. Some Articles are available for our Visitors at the Encyclopedia Index. As soon as you are a Member of our service, you have access to all of the articles in our Encyclopedias related to your Membership.

Company Handbook build it by yourself

A Company Handbook is a Tool, which assists you to manage your business. You could store information in it, which has to be available for all employees. It will make it easier to train new people in your business as well.

But why should you build it yourself? Well, because no business is like the other. Even if you are looking at Workflows, which might look the same, you will find out that there are not the same. It's in the Details.

It's your business and you know it best. So you might take a look what others do, but then you need to decide how you would like to do it. Therefore we just provide the Framework.

Use a Membership with more than one person
- up to 5 Sub-Users included -

SILVER and GOLD Members are able to add Sub-Users to their Membership-Account. This means that a subscription could be used by more than 1 person.

Depending on the Membership you choose, you could add up to 5 Subusers to your Membership-Account free of charge. Additional Sub-User maybe add for an extra fee.

Each Sub-User of your Membership will have it's own working environment and some specific modules of this online service are ready for collaborative usage of all users belonging to your Membership-Account.

Additionally the ability of collaboration between the users at different modules of our Online Service will be extended more and more.

Online Support-System
- To help you to get Maximum Return from your Membership -

As a Member you have access to our Support-System (Help-System), which provides you with the possibility to open a Support-Request in case you have problems using the Strategic Balance (SBS), the ERS/B (Early-Recognition-System with Benchmarking), the Encyclopedias or the Templates and Checklists.

Our Support-System is completely online, this way no confidential data are send by email, thus keeping your information secure. Once your Support-Ticket has been updated, you will automatically receive an email about new information in your Member-Account.

Security and Anonymity

To secure your information, all data transfers are secured using SSL-encrypted Internet Connections.

Furthermore, business analysis which provide comparison features are structured to enable the use of Business Ratios / Key Performance Indicators which are Percentages only. Nobody will be able to asume the size of your business by percentages only.

Available data comparisons are done totally anonymisously. This way you don't know to whom your business is compared and others don't know that they are compared to you.

Updates included in all Memberships

No matter if you are a BASIS, SILVER or GOLD-Member, if the System is updated you will directly benefit from it, as all Members have immediate access to all new Analysis, Articles, Templates or new Features as soon as they are available.

Updates will be available to you as well, even while you use our Service within the 30 Days of the Money-Back-Guarantee. We are updating frequently.

Already used by Members in 20 Countries and 15 Industries

By June 2010 business owners and managers from 20 countries and within 15 industries have choosen to be a member of abenetis.

If you are serious about Business Improvement, than a membership is right for you as well.

You might think about, if the time is right for any action on your part. Well, the time is right, when you decide to take the necessary steps. You don't depend on any economic trends. It's always the right time to improve your business.

Ready to use!

This Online Service provides you with the information you need to improve your business. And it will be enhanced regularly. Imagine, you don't need to search to get ideas on how to improve your business. You will not have to spend huge amounts of money buying books or attending at management classes.

Also think about the templates as they are ready to use. Nothing you have to bother with, except filling everything with data from your business. Don't invest hours or even days or months of your precious time, just to find out that you didn't got any further.

You only need access to the Internet and an Internet-Browser. Thus you could use our Service anytime and everywhere.
No Software Download or Software Installation is required.

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If you cancel your Membership within the first 30 days after starting your Membership, we will fully refund your Membership Fee.

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