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Are Your Company Departments At War With Each Other?

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Company is a mechanism - even if separate parts work well, it doesn’t guarantee the organization as a whole functions efficiently. Today we will discuss one of the most common issues that can be potentially holding your business back. As soon as any company has more than 2 employees, cross-department or cross-functional conflicts are inevitable. The bigger the company, the more strained cross-department relations hamper its growth. In this article we prepared the most common causes of interdepartmental conflicts and strategies to prevent them. Break system barriers  As if human communication is not complicated enough, business operating systems might create barriers that don’t let the team collaborate efficiently. Competing goals, vague roles or broken business processes are typical examples of possible system barriers. A business process refers to a wide range of structured activities that are implemented to accomplish an organizational goal. As business processes can be manual or...

How Gantt Chart Software Can Make Your Business More Efficient

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Are you looking for free online Gantt chart software? Something that's available online, on premise with open source access, on your mobile app, on your Mac, on your PC, and supports all four dependency types? Meet  Bitrix24 .  Our Gantt task manager comes with all the bells and whistles. First, the timeline view is zoomable, so you can work with tasks that last hour as well as those that last months. Second, you get time tracking inside tasks/projects. You can easily compare how much time was actually spent on a task or a project vs. what was planned. Third, you can easily move your tasks around and all dependent tasks will move with the parent task. Fourth, you can view workload for each of your team members in order to manage their time effectively. Finally, Bitrix24 is the only free Gantt task system that comes with  client management tools , so you can easily provide quotes and invoices for your projects. Free Gantt chart software Gantt chart with dependencies Free G...