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I believe the reason for this is that we started out with papers, just like email started with mail, an inbox and an outbox. Email today is much smarter with conversation history but for a long time and stil today we have in and outboxes. Todays CRM is just a enlargement of the paper based system but with the disadvantage that you have to do the entire structure on how information is stored once you want to change the workflow. That leads to much longer iterations and changing is hard.
If you work in sales ask your self this: * Does my CRM system answer what I am going to do? Not just your self written todo list, I mean some intelligence like what is the most optimal action for you to do in any given moment. * How long does it take to change your CRM system to adopt it to your organisation * Do you still have fields for fax number in your CRM? * How is knowledge transferred from your top performing sales people to others. Does your CRM system help with that.
CRM system should give more then it takes. It should answer thous questions.
However... Sweden also spend lots of money on a virtual embassy in second life. Read more about it here: http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/Reading/Second-Life/
Maybe you can do a think of virtually applying for visa in sweden and write a pressrelease and push it on mynewsdesk.com. Startup community is also big in Sweden and we need skilled developers (Im swedish).
Carl Bildt,Foreign Minister of Sweden since 2006 (https://twitter.com/carlbildt) is very active on twitter and in my guess most likely to respond to a virtual request for visa by twitter and second life. This is a long shot but something you can try by your computer.
When you get visa in any EU country it is easy to move to germany and travel over boarders within EU.
"Hi, I am happy to attend an intervjuv but before I do I need to make sure you can pay with in my range. Please go to www.dowefitinsaleryterms.com/X12xs2 ho is a third party. " Would that work?