August 27th, 2014 by Elma Jane
An IT services firm, announced earlier this week that it purchased a majority stake in cloud-based travel management company. With the move,hopes to strengthen its travel vertical by using software-as-a service travel IT platform. The future of software services lies in blending models with customized solutions and services over different stages of an enterprise lifecycle and across different business segments within the enterprise. The platform combined with the strong management team and travel domain specialist will further strengthen competitive position in the travel vertical.
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Travel Agency Agents Tagged with: business, cloud-based, company, domain, IT, management, platform, service, software, solutions, specialist, team, travel, travel domain, travel management, travel vertical
August 26th, 2014 by Elma Jane
Being a good leader in the workplace is no easy feat. Every day is busy and full of challenges. It’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday management tasks and let leadership style fall by the wayside sometimes. However, as a boss, it’s important that you don’t let this happen, as your employees are counting on you. LEADERS set the standards required of a culture. Your leadership style indicates what’s considered appropriate behavior in your organization, and that your company’s culture will moderate itself based on what you endorse both formally and informally.
So how do you know a good or if you are a good boss? This quiz will help you evaluate your leadership skills. Answer true or false to the following 20 questions, and see how your management skills add up.
1. I am approachable. Employees can ask me anything without fear of rebuke or belittlement, and I listen to them with full attention.
2. I am credible as a leader. I know my stuff.
3. I am able to explain the need for change in our business in a way that interests or encourages my employees and doesn’t dishearten them.
4. I am able to explain the wider context of situations and circumstances that affect or challenge our company in a way that my team can understand.
5. I am able to identify where my team needs to grow and/or develop skill sets and capabilities, and can find the necessary resources to facilitate this growth.
6. I am inspired by my work and the work of my team.
7. I believe in my employees.
8. I can explain to my team our key value proposition for customers in one short sentence.
9. I constantly remind myself and my team of the purpose of our work and why we are doing what we do (e.g., for customer results, customer service or to hit sales targets.)
10. I do not judge my staff based on who I am, but rather on who they could be and should be.
11. I have an up-to-date understanding of our customers’ needs and expectations of us, and their perception of us as an organization.
12. I have communicated clearly and repeatedly to people on my team or department what our core business is.
13. I have communicated clearly and repeatedly to people in my team or department what my expectations of them are.
14. I know and live by my own set of personal values that make me reliable and consistent around my team.
15. I never lose my temper with staff.
16. I personally embody the company values in everything I think, say and do in the workplace.
17. I provide an organized formal performance review process at least twice a year with my people.
18. I provide regular informal feedback on people’s efforts and performance.
19. I regularly praise employees’ efforts and behaviors by describing how they reflect our company or team values.
20. I understand and know our company values, and how our collective behavior reflects or violates these values.
The more you answered true, the closer you are to being a good boss. If you have scored 15 or more statements as true for you, you are well positioned as an effective and inspiring leader. If you have scored 10 to 15 statements as true for you, you must begin work on the oversights immediately in order to become an effective leader. If you have scored less than 10 statements as true for you, seek support or training and development, as you are currently missing many of the vital components required to be an effective leader.
Posted in nationaltransaction.com Tagged with: business, company, customer service, customers, management, organization, sales, sales targets
October 18th, 2013 by Elma Jane
Verifone Ruby 2 POS
VeriFone Systems, announced today the availability of Commander Site Controller, the company’s next generation site management solution, and Ruby2 a touch-screen point of sale (POS) solution, both designed to provide greater efficiency, faster payment acceptance and new management capabilities that maximize profit potential for convenience store retailers.
Commander Site Controller is purpose-built for rugged c-store environments and combines site, payment and forecourt control in one device, creating additional flexibility in store configuration. Its future-proof system architecture includes expansion slots and ports for additional capacity and functionality. Additionally, Commander Site Controller features 100 percent IP communication for increased speed of EMV transactions.
Ruby2 is the next evolution of VeriFone’s Ruby POS platform, a 20-year leader in the petroleum industry. It features a fully-touchscreen console that increases checkout speed by providing fast and efficient order and payment processing, and a smaller footprint for increased counter space. Ruby2 is compatible with the latest VeriFone product offerings, including customer engagement media solutions, site management software to efficiently manage multiple locations seamlessly, and the latest in fuel control management.
VeriFone is taking petroleum retail and c-store operations to new heights of efficiency and manageability. These next-generation systems build on the success of Sapphire site controller and original Ruby POS systems with the ability to expand in order to meet customers’ future needs.
Commander Site Controller’s cloud based management software platform – Commander Console—enables owners to remotely and simultaneously complete PLU price changes, tax rate adjustments, fuel price changes and promotional updates in real time for multiple site locations from any web enabled device or mobile app for iOS and Android tablets and smartphones.
Ruby2 will be available this fall on certain networks while Commander Site Controller is available today on certain networks.
Posted in Credit card Processing, Electronic Payments, Mobile Point of Sale, Point of Sale Tagged with: acceptance, app, architecture, capabilities, capacity, command site controller, convenience, EMV, engagement, expansion, forecourt, iOS, management, mobile, networks, payment, plu, point of sale, POS, retailers, ruby 2, rugged, seemlessly, site, Smartphones, store, systems, touch-screen, touchscreen, transactions, verifone
