2020 will forever be remembered as the year we had to carry out our daily responsibilities from our dining tables. Organisations that never had any work from home policies pre-COVID have found themselves scrambling to implement one. The real question, though, is whether working from home will become a permanent part of the post COVID-19 business world. 

How to future-proof your organisation when the pandemic has upended almost all aspects of our daily lives? If you believe in the mantra that people are the greatest asset of any business, then the importance of the HR function in the post-pandemic world will be twofold. 

The healthcare industry has recently found itself sandwiched between the worst pandemic in living memory and profound disruptions such as smart systems to standardise front and back-office operations, and value-based payment models to enable providers, payers, and patients to achieve the best possible treatment outcomes at the lowest costs. 

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases globally are gradually declining. However, this is not the time to celebrate; until a viable cure is developed, preventative measures should continue to be carried out diligently. 

Accounting for manufacturing businesses is complex as it has a lot to deal with inventory valuation and costs of goods sold to determine the most appropriate value of the finished items. 

In a post-pandemic world, logistics companies need to ensure they are giving their best performance by leveraging state-of-the-art IT solutions that allow them to automate and optimise every step of their operations. This also applies to the accounting function.

E-commerce businesses have experienced tremendous growth during COVID-19, which is expected as non-essential brick-and-mortar retailers have had to go into shutdown. 

The top priority for healthcare organisations is to deliver effective treatment at optimal costs. As such, medical practitioners and the finance team must collaborate to alleviate the patient's physical and financial pains. 

As Fat Larry’s Band (ask your parents) once sang, “Zoom! Just one look and then my heart went boom!” And video conferencing solution Zoom has had a similar effect on users in the last couple of years, rapidly becoming the go-to program for online meetings and video calls. It’s quick to set up, easy to use, free of charge for light users, and provides a much smoother and less glitchy experience than most of its competitors. No wonder it’s become so popular so quickly!

Recently we shared some ideas to help locked-down marketers keep busy during the COVID-19 crisis, and one of our suggestions was that this is the ideal time to do that website spring clean you’ve almost certainly been putting off for ages! Obviously, if your website is perfect you can skip this article, but we suspect even the most assiduously-maintained site would benefit from a bit of tweaking. So here’s our checklist for sprucing up and optimising your business’s most important sales tool.