{"id":339912,"date":"2011-03-26T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/26\/smes-urged-to-take-advantage-of-ict-to-improve-operations\/"},"modified":"2011-03-26T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:47:07","slug":"smes-urged-to-take-advantage-of-ict-to-improve-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/26\/smes-urged-to-take-advantage-of-ict-to-improve-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"SMEs Urged To Take Advantage Of ICT To Improve Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been urged to take advantage of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to improve their operations.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Solomon Allotey, Head of Management Information System (MIS) of Eximguaranty Company (GH) Limited, said this was the way to go if they were to achieve growth and increase their market share.<\/p>\n<p>He was making a presentation at a day\u2019s workshop in Kumasi for managers and directors of SMEs drawn from the Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Northern, and the Upper East and West regions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Allotey spoke on \u201cEnhancing SME productivity and efficiency through corporate governance and the use of ICT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The workshop, organized by Eximguaranty Company Limited, brought together about 100 participants.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Allotey said there should not be any illusion about the fact that SMEs were important growth pillars and, therefore, their strong performance would be of tremendous benefit to the national economy.<\/p>\n<p>He said the effective use of ICT had proved to be a vital tool for growing businesses across the world and expanding market boundaries and, therefore, SMEs needed to be encouraged to fully explore the opportunities it offered to achieve a high level of efficiency and become competitive.      <br \/>Mr Allotey said the SMEs would, however, require some support from Government to translate the benefits of ICT to their core business by way of improved communications infrastructure, access and affordability of ICT equipment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1528-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest is here: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been urged to take advantage of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to improve their operations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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