Using a Microsoft Dynamics Solution Integrated with Outlook for Better Time Management

Fact: more is expected of you than ever before at work, and that means you have to figure out how best to manage your time to help you prioritize your tasks and free up time to get them done.

In a recent webcast, Bill Hoffman, productivity and time management expert at Microsoft Corporation, talked about some common time management challenges you face and how intelligently integrating data between Microsoft Outlook, Dynamics ERP systems, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM can address these challenges by putting the right tasks and the right information in front of workers, making them more productive.

"When I say, ‘Today it is me but tomorrow it is us,' I mean I want the mindset to be, ‘Let's think of the whole; let's think of the greater good; let's think of if I share this information with every person would it help them do their job better?'" Hoffman asked. "The foundation of our success is to every interaction we have and our commitment is to managing the time we put in at work, at home around working on the highest priority interactions."

Hoffman pointed to the proliferation of disparate systems as a major point of inefficiency in people's daily work.  For example, in every company there are users who have to access various systems to get different kinds of information about customers.

"I've got my ERP folks doing A/R collections and AP vendor management on the financial solution. I've got my sales folks using the CRM solution. I've got my marketing folks using this cool online marketing tool. I've got the operational folks using a warehouse management solution and something else," he said. "And we don't see each other's stuff often. And rarely are we able ...