Managers who allow their employees to use their own mobile devices for work will most likely see increased productivity and more innovation from their employees.

Perhaps even more important, they will provide flexibility for their most valuable employees who may simply find another place to work if they feel obstructed from using their preferred devices.

Higher productivity

Research conducted by the internet-based market research firm YouGov shows that productivity increases if employees are allowed to use their own mobile devices for work. Now that more and more software is available in the cloud, the choice of end-user device is less crucial, the research deduced.

YouGov sampled 700 companies in Germany, France and the UK and found that 11% of employees who use their own smartphones or tablets were 30% more productive than their counterparts while a third of respondents said their workers’ productivity increased by at least 10%.

Preferred devices

Further results from the survey revealed that 61% of employees said it made their life easier if they could use the same device for both business and personal use. Also, around 50% claimed that their device was more flexible and functional than their employer’s alternative.

As a manager, you may doubt whether your employees’ devices are really better than the ones you present them with. But in any case, the important thing for you to keep in mind is that your employees will become more productive and innovative when they are using the devices they feel most comfortable and positive with.

Active push

Finally, the survey also found that 45% of staff already use their own devices for work which indicates that employees are pushing actively to be allowed to choose their own devices.

And with competition for the best IT workers more fierce than ever before, it would really be a shame to lose out on people because of this.

Recently e-conomic had the opportunity to collaborate with Microsoft.eu and discuss my view on the cloud movement and it’s lasting impacts on the international marketplace.

I shared e-conomic’s experience as a start-up in the cloud marketplace 10 years ago, and how far we – and the cloud movement as a whole – have rapidly progressed ever since.

Read ‘The cloud is more than just hot air’ on Microsoft.eu

e-conomic for Microsoft.eu

You can read my full guest post, The cloud is more than just hot air, on Microsoft’s website.

Please feel free to comment here or on Microsoft.eu with any thoughts you have on the subject.  Do you agree with me that the cloud is truly the way forward?

Thank you to Microsoft for this great collaboration!

As a company in rapid growth, it’s not only our number of customers and turnover figures that are climbing. We’re also more and more people working at e-conomic, with offices all around Europe, from Spain to the UK to Ukraine.

That’s why it’s especially important for me that we take time out – as we did on September 29 and 30 – to meet and exchange ideas, share knowledge, be inspired by each other, network and get to know each other a little bit better.

And of course, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have fun while you’re doing this!

Having fun at the e-conomic Company Days

Benefits all around

Close to 80 people from e-conomic’s different offices were part of the Company Days. They all contributed to a great atmosphere, full of energy, dedication and a desire to share and learn from each other to help move the company forward.

That’s why I think this event is not only beneficial to e-conomic as a company and the people working here – it’s also an opportunity for us to consider new and different ways of creating even more value for our customers.

If you have any ideas for how we can improve your e-conomic experience, we would love to hear from you.

And in case you would like to know what the people working at e-conomic look like – they are all there in the video below, doing an umbrella version of the e-conomic logo!

This year, e-conomic is proud to sponsor the 2011 Innovation Champion event – a Danish business competition to find the most innovative company leader or team – because we want to help maximize the success of our innovative customers.

I strongly believe that innovation means everything in today’s business world, and it is with this belief in mind that the e-conomic company is run.

e-conomic is a proud sponsor of the 2011 Innovation Champion competition

Innovation in our organization

Here at e-conomic, the company has been structured to contain very few organizational restrictions.  Our management is visible, open minded and engaged in driving new ideas and focusing on an innovative work process.

We strive to keep the e-conomic environment fun and interactive.  I believe that it needs to make sense to go to work each day – not just to earn a salary, but in order to be creative, successful, innovative and challenged every single day.

Since I would never turn down a good, well-thought-out idea from someone in the company, we constantly have many new projects and products emerging from the innovation of our employees.

We like to try new things and see what comes of them. It’s always exciting to see how we can improve and enhance processes — both in our office and for our customers.

Innovation in our customer relations

Here at e-conomic, all members of the company are close to our customers.  Our contact with customers is open, personal and transparent – we strive to always listen and react to their needs and experiences.

For one example, you can see this reflected in our regular Market Packages when we initiate system improvements “due to popular demand”.

Innovation in e-conomic – moving forward

e-conomic’s innovative organizational structure allows our company to reach new heights and goals nearly every single day.  Whether we set a mission to make welcome calls to 100% of new sign-ups, or to welcome 100,000 clients to e-conomic by 2013 – innovative thinking is how we achieve and surpass such goals.

The 2011 Innovation Champion

The most successful businesses are driven by an innovative leader or innovative teams that have four defining features: initiative, speciality, organization and networking.

Are you this year’s innovative leader?  Does your company have an innovation dream team?  Join the Innovation Champion 2011 competition and find out!  You can read all about how to apply at www.innovationchampion.dk.

On September 16 and 17, 2010, e-conomic employees from nine different countries met at the e-conomic headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.

e-conomic employees gather to discuss the past, present, and future of the e-conomic company

We met to present new ideas, projects and functionality, discuss current features and improvements, and brainstorm and contemplate future endeavors. The service and support team also took part in a number of new trainings, to ensure that our customer service and application support continues to become better and better.

Here at e-conomic we are working constantly to improve our accounting software in many respects.  We would like to always offer an accounting solution that is easy to use, consistently receives new features and improvements, and meanwhile maintains excellent customer service and satisfaction.

If there is anything that we can do to make your e-conomic experience a better one – please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for joining us for this journey.  It’s an honor to have you!

Finland has now been launched as the next e-conomic country, as we  have recently opened websites in both Finnish and Swedish-Finnish. Finnish users will run on the Swedish version of e-conomic, but with the Euro as the default currency.

This is by no means the last of our expansions, as we will move to France in the near future.

e-conomic is now in much of Europe which means it is much easier for our customers with international operations.

The application allows you to access multiple invoice templates and as your company grows, you can easily use the same software across different countries.