Communicating change? Then change how you communicate! You’d think we’d have figured it out by now. Given all of the change initiatives in all of the companies throughout all of the years, you’d think we’d have figured out how to … Read More
Yearly Archives: 2020
Aligning Behavior with Values and Ethics
Basic behavior is either the willful alignment to established standards, or the willful disobedience of those standards. In last week’s blog, we discussed the importance of distinguishing competence from behavior to maximize performance improvement. Today, we continue this conversation. Behavior … Read More
Distinguish Competence from Behavior to Maximize Performance Improvement
When managing people, competence and behavior are often indistinguishable — and that’s a problem for integrators that want to maximize performance. Many managers automatically link competence and behavior together. As a result, when an employee is doing something incorrectly, … Read More
ClearTalk Ep 01: Ruthless Consistency with Michael Canic
When all is said and done, a lot more gets said than done. What is the antidote to this? Ruthless Consistency! Welcome to the inaugural episode of ClearTalk, the new Solutions360 Podcast. On this episode of ClearTalk, our CEO, Brad … Read More
Solutions360 Releases New Job Costing Survival Guide
Why Is Job Costing So Important in 2020? Over the last 20 years, Solutions360 has worked with hundreds of businesses to help apply technology that improves business process management and profitability. One of the most complicated issues that Solutions360 has … Read More
Solutions360 Releases New Interactive Dashboards
Interactive dashboards in Q360 allow individuals at different levels of an integration business, to influence change, and make better (more profitable) decisions. Tofiq Indawala, Director of Product Management for Solutions360, recently joined Brad Malone on the Navigator Podcast, to announce … Read More
How to Calculate and Recover Your Labor Burden
Welcome back to The Brads Show, and our series of discussions about how to build the principles of maturity into your integration business. In today’s video, Brad Dempsey and Brad Malone discuss the importance of accurately measuring labor burden, and … Read More
Buying vs Leasing, Which is Better?
The most important distinction between buying vs leasing is how the finance charges are paid. If you have ever bought a house or a car, or started a business, you likely have experience with loans. A question you or your … Read More
Communicate Assumptions and Risks to Create Common Sense
Common sense is when everybody around me agrees with my perception of reality, without my having to tell them. Working on hundreds of projects and training thousands of project managers, I’ve often wondered why so few people around me have … Read More
The Power of Forecasting for Your Integration Business
Welcome back to our series of discussions about metrics and how to build the principles of maturity into your integration business. We’ve talked in a number of these sessions about mature companies versus younger companies or immature companies. And what … Read More
