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Best Practices for AV Sales People
I’d like to describe some of the best AV sales people I’ve seen, from some of the best companies I’ve worked with. By Brad Malone, Navigate Management Consulting Most the integration companies I’ve worked with employ a range of sales
January 20, 2020

How Does Solutions360 Become Your Most Trusted Business Partner?
One of the most valuable things Solutions360 brings to the table is our deep understanding of integration businesses. Not only do we understand our customers’ businesses, we have over a decade of experience designing and implementing best practices, and the
January 13, 2020

Close the Profitability Loop in Your Job Costing Process
Job costing is one of the most complicated issues that Solutions360 has seen in the integration industry. Solutions360 has worked with more than 200 integrators, and fewer than 10 percent were satisfied with their job costing process, prior to implementing
January 6, 2020

Revenue Recognition Lessons Private Companies Can Learn from Public Companies
The clock is ticking for private companies as they face implementation of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) revenue recognition standard. In this Q&A with FEI Daily, KPMG’s Meredith Canady and Kevin Bogle discuss the stages of implementation, hurdles to implementing
December 30, 2019

Dashboards in Q360 Turn Data into Information
What differentiates integrators that use dashboards in Q360 from those that don’t? Today, Tofiq Indawala, Director of Product Management, is joined by Brad Malone from Navigate Management Consulting to talk about dashboards in Q360. How do Solutions360 customers use dashboards?
December 23, 2019

We Challenge You to Set 5 Goals for 2020
What processes will lead to you achieving your 2020 goals? This is a guest blog post by Chris Peterson, Principal at Vector Firm. Toward the end of 2006, I was planning my goals for the following year. I realized that
December 16, 2019

How Do You Know You Are Ready for an ERP Implementation?
This week, our CEO, Brad Dempsey, is joined by Brad Malone, Partner at Navigate Management Consulting, to talk about change management and ERP implementations. More specifically, how do integrators know when they are ready for all the change that will
December 9, 2019

A Focus on Quality Will Impact Success in Your Integration Business
There are four ways to measure work in your integration business Quantity First are measures of output, starting with Quantity: how much work was produced. You can usually identify and report the number of units, pounds, or other output measures,
December 2, 2019

Who Owns the Estimating Process – Sales or Operations?
Who should be responsible for the estimating process? One of the issues that Solutions360 often addresses with customers is the estimating process. Today, our own Tofiq Indawala, is joined by Steve Riley, of Navigate Management Consulting, to discuss who should
November 25, 2019

Creating Culture for an Increasingly Remote Workforce
Many organizations, Solutions360 included, are moving to more of a remote workforce. Today, our CEO, Brad Dempsey, speaks with Brad Malone, Partner with Navigate Management Consulting, about some of the challenges that Solutions360 has faced while embracing remote working, and
November 18, 2019

Yes, Your Customers Want AV-as-a-Service!
We have been talking a lot lately about the benefits of embracing the AV-as-a-Service business model. But, this is not a new concept, it is just fairly new to the AV space. “Customers are already consuming other technology that way,
November 11, 2019

Keeping Score in Your Integration Business
Where in your organization are you keeping score, and who is responsible for it? Toward the end of the fiscal year, most organizations will set out strategic goals for the following year. Whether that’s sales, performance, customer satisfaction or profitability.
November 4, 2019