High costs are always expected to make a company work or to organize a project, or it is believed to have to settle for free programs that are difficult to use or of low level and limited in functions. Instead there are solutions, cheap at ridiculous levels but, above all, absolutely functional at a professional level.
On this occasion, I thought to describe one of these solutions to create a corporate dashboard accessible online, easy to implement and that can be adapted to any small-scale commercial reality, for the organization of professional studios, for consultancy activities and projects of any type.
Meanwhile, as a working methodology, I would like to report the GTD and the many applications that support it.
Referring to other more exhaustive discussions the examination of this methodology, I only mention that GTD is about Getting Things Done is based on doing things actively, freeing the mind from remembering and concentrating the work on doing.
The management platform that I recommend to try and deepen for its ease of use and for the strength and potential of what it offers is G Suite .
G Suite (formerly Google Apps) has now become a complete paid business management program that includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and Google Sites, with a custom domain .
You can therefore incorporate all the resources needed to work or manage a project under your name and thus be able to have an e-mail server, a calendar to organize the work and, above all, a website, which you can easily create yourself in half a day.
G Suite, to the delight of those who want to save money, is a real corporate dashboard that costs 40 Euros per year.
The greatest value of G Suite is represented by the Email platform with personalized addresses and the one for creating websites with Google, a central dashboard for managing the organization and executing projects.
Google Sites can also be used for free, without even paying for the domain name, with a simple Google account even if, in that case, you would not have the advantage of having a site with your name like www.ristorante.com but of the sites type .google.com / site / restaurant.
In another post the detail on how to create a commercial and professional site with Google Sites .
If you choose, as advisable, to go ahead with G Suite after the free trial, you can fill in the contract with your personal data, pay with Google Wallet by credit card also prepaid and then complete the process of configuring the domain and the website.
After a short time, within half an hour, it will be online and already accessible from all over the world.
The dashboard of the G Suite dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand.
Active services are listed in the dashboard: Email, Sites, Calendar and Docs are the most important.
Email allows you to register Email addresses with the chosen domain and with a program identical to Gmail;
Sites is used to create the web portal;
Calendar to manage deadlines and appointments with a calendar common to the whole organization.
Docs allows you to work on Word, Excel, Powerpoint documents also collaboratively and provides a space to store files.
If you click on each of them, you access the settings relating to the service where you can configure the internet address with which to reach it and where there are very detailed instructions for initial activation and all in Italian.
In advanced tools, in addition to being able to download a desktop client for managing G Suite, there are also tools to migrate mail and to upload emails from a program such as Microsoft Outlook to Gmail.
In the user panel you can set the email addresses of other collaborating people.
In addition to the Google calendar, to organize commitments and appointments shared between collaborators and members of the project, the focal point of the platform, as mentioned, is Google Sites where you can create the first project and integrate everything else .
Clearly G Suite is not the only alternative to create a corporate dashboard that can be managed online at negligible costs.
Google, however, allows you not to worry about hosting server maintenance and security updates and there is a large community of users from whom you can find help and support in using the tools.
It is not without flaws and, probably, someone will suffer from the enormous simplification, the fact that there is no access to the source code, that the management of the permissions is very limited (or all or nothing), that the backup is only manual .
An alternative to the height, both from the point of view of ease and efficiency, is Zoho, a less famous name of Google that has nothing to envy as a management suite.
