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What are the Benefits of PSA Software?

Professional Services Automation (PSA) software includes a number of high level benefits.  We can whittle this down into three groups of benefits; streamlining operations and execution, improving business performance and winning more business. Streamline Operations and Execution These PSA elements allow … Read More

The Importance of Project Accounting in Professional Services Organizations

Project Accounting, sometimes referred to as job cost accounting, is the practice of creating financials specifically to track the financial progress of projects.  Project Accounting enables the professional services organization to monitor the progress of their projects from a financial … Read More

How to Use Software to Help Weather the Economic Downturn

Focus on “Faster and Better”. Every asset, machine, tool and person you have must be accountable and cycle more quickly. Your business cannot survive unless you know where your resources are and how they can be used efficiently. Imagine being … Read More

Job Costing Software is Key to Construction Profits

Even in the best of economies more contractors go belly up than not. Knowing this, many builders reason that the best solution for dealing with risk is to keep their business modest. And yet, many fail. Nonetheless, for every failure, … Read More

Five Keys to Success when Implementing Change

No matter what kind of change you are trying to invoke in your business; there are five key considerations to address to give you the best chance for success.  According to Dave Gustafson, NIATx (process improvement specialists) Director, these are … Read More

Gaining an Edge: Don’t Tolerate Slow Financial Processes

++Referenced from Big Fat Finance Blog++ Mary Driscoll December 20th, 2010 The never-ending pursuit of cost reduction in financial management operations is all well and good — but do not overlook the negative impacts of slow process cycle times. APQC … Read More

Finding the mobile OS that’s right for your business: John Graham talks iPhone

Author: Tasha Caruso TELUS Talks Business With so many mobile devices on the market that support various operating systems, it’s often tough to know which will be the best tool to support you and your team. In series of four … Read More

Five New Management Metrics You Need To Know

Sometimes we focus too much on traditional metrics, here is a great post on non financial measurements…. This is a guest post from James Slavet of venture firm Greylock Partners. Slavet’s investments include Coupons.com, Groupon, One Kings Lane and Redfin. … Read More

Can’t Decide Whether to Love or Hate Service Agreements? You’re Not Alone

The following is a excerpt of a post by Christopher Neto of AVShout At Your Service Can’t Decide Whether to Love or Hate Service Agreements? You’re Not Alone  By Christopher Neto It has many names—a service maintenance agreement, a fixed-price support contract, … Read More

Have you Experienced Project Management Miscommunication?

Does this picture remind you of your last project?  This is one of my favorite comic strips about project management communication, or miscommunication.  I first came across this comic strip about 6 years ago, it was posted outside of a … Read More