Selecting Apps to Improve your Productivity

Russell Cummings

Strategic Business Development

May 2016

Find an Extra 8 Hours in Every Week

http://www.sbdbusiness.com.au/lifting-personal-productivity/

TIME

MANAGEMENT

PYRAMID

WHAT IS

YOUR CORE

TECHNOLOGY?

BASIC PRINCIPLES

KEY AREAS OF

YOUR

ECOSYSTEM

Technology

•Define your core technology – Desktop, mobile tech

•Does the tech work together? Eg. Windows v Apple

Ecosystem

•Define the key elements of your Ecosystem

•Select core apps that are “Fit for Purpose” & productive

Integration

•Do these apps work across all platforms?

•Do they integrate with other Apps?

THE PROCESS

WHAT APPS

ARE YOU

USING IN

EACH AREA?

• Evernote: Livescribe Pen, Cloudmagic, Insightly, AirMail2,

browsers

• Trello: Cloudmagic, email, OneDrive, Google Calendar

• Insightly: emails, Google Calendar, OneDrive, Xero, IOS

Contacts

• TripIt: scans emails, Google Calendar

• Xero: Receipt Bank, Insightly, Bank Feeds

• CloudMagic (IOS), AirMail2 (iMac): Evernote, Trello, OneDrive

• OneDrive: data storage - Trello, Office 365, Insightly

• Google Calendar: Trello, Insightly, Calendly, TripIt

All apps work across my iPhone, iPad and iMac desktop.

THE ANALYSIS – CORE LINKAGES

TRELLO.COM

EVERNOTE

LIVESCRIBE PEN

MICROSOFT

OFFICE 365

ONLINE FILE STORAGE –

ONEDRIVE

INSIGHTLY

VIDEO

CONFERENCING

TRIPIT.COM

XERO

&

RECEIPT

BANK

30-

MINUTE

REPORTS

USE VIDEO & AUDIO

INSTEAD OF EMAIL

AUDIO &

VIDEO

TOOLS

TIME

MANAGEMENT

PYRAMID

Technology

•Define your core technology – Desktop, mobile tech

•Does the tech work together? Eg. Windows v Apple

Ecosystem

•Define the key elements of your Ecosystem

•Select core apps that are “Fit for Purpose” & productive

Integration

•Do these apps work across all platforms?

•Do they integrate with other Apps?

OUR PROCESS

Russell Cummings

Business Consultant

M: 0414 929 585

W: www.sbdbusiness.com.au

E: russell@sbdbusiness.com.au