Green Business Model – Paperless Business – Environmentally Friendly Businesses
In order for a company to provide Green Business Services to other companies, it must first maximize it’s own operational costs and operational efficiency. A strong green business operating model has many facets including use of productive time, optimizing human resource utilization, optimizing usage of office supplies, and business equipment among other things.
My objective with A1 Enterprise has always been and still is to evolve the company into the highest and most efficient operational model possible and to utilize time and money in a manner that yields the greatest results with the lowest operating cost without sacrificing quality or the ability to collaborate. In fact, I have through the years only sought ways to improve team collaboration while researching and testing new means of a Green Business operation.
I embarked on a conceptual idea for A1 Enterprise back in 2001, when I setup a garage-network with a 384k DSL circuit to feed our programmers with the necessary business collaboration software and network tools to provide our business software products and business services. The reduced overhead costs of hosting all network services and our network infrastructure in a garage kept our billing rates lower than that of our competition and enabled me to reinvest in other facets of A1 Enterprise, such as our own Saas (Software-as-a-Service) signature product, A1 Tracker.
As our volume increased, so did our network. There was a point in which A1 Enterprise reached a seemingly uncontrollable growth rate at 170% per year for several consecutive years. With the intention to handle the increased volume, business process improvement and maintaining low production costs took a lower priority than managing the projects entrusted to A1 Enterprise by it’s customers. Still, as a company, operating income remained higher than operating expenses and the organization managed to improve operations throughout the first company growth trend which lasted 7 years.
The 2007-2008 economic change has given me an opportunity to carefully assess and question the operational needs and business strategies of A1 Enterprise and initiate changes that will only serve to increase the company’s longevity, customer service reliability, competitive edge in the software sector, and profitability. Although business volume is lower as compared to last year to date, A1 Enterprise is more stable than it has been since I can remember. It’s ironic that this sense of stability should come during the current conditions, however this goes to show that, no matter the state of the economy as a whole, a company must maintain and value it’s ability to remain flexible and dynamic. The ability for A1 Enterprise to dynamically adjust to market needs and market conditions has, since 2001, been a strength of the company and as I continue to watch the company evolve I am more so pleased with this very unique attribute.
A1 Enterprise continues to settle into and evolve from the newly restructured Green operational framework. My commitment to the company will remain strong toward maintaining this dynamic and flexible attribute of this organization. This also means the people that work with and around A1 Enterprise share in this same commitment.
Responsibility and accountability for time, money, relationships, and operating supplies is what makes A1 Enterprise a perfect candidate and green business model study for managing and operating a Green Business. I congratulate and thank all of those who made A1 Enterprise into what the company is today.
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