By Greg VanDeWalker Low cost and high quality managed services do not go together I’m a huge history buff, so when I was in Manhattan this summer, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit Alexander and Eliza Hamilton’s … Read More
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Keep Track of Project Management Costs in Real Time to Improve Your Bottom Line
There’s a vast echoing gap between the mindset of accounting and project management in most businesses. It has a lot to do with time: The PMO works with a today-and-tomorrow mindset – getting the project done, on time, to specs. … Read More
You Know You’re Ready for ERP Software When…
Are You Ready for ERP Software? There is a tipping point in every business when the small, nimble team that worked its magic for years starts to degrade under the weight of data. Too many customers to keep track … Read More
Job Costing Critical Piece to Preserving Margins
Addressing problems quickly can help save projects that might otherwise be doomed. November 18, 2013 | by D. Craig MacCormack Commercial Integrator Magazine If you’ve been victimized by a profit-sucking job that spiraled out of control before you knew what had happened … Read More
Solutions360 to Sponsor NSCA Best Practices Conference
Solutions360 is the Supporting Sponsor of this fall’s NSCA Best Practices Conferences to be held in October and November 2013. As a technology partner of the NSCA, Solutions360 looks to support integrators by helping them to improve efficiency and introduce … Read More
Watch Your Profits Increase
How Benchmarking and Best Practices Can Improve Your Business Business as usual is not working. With the various pressures that today’s systems integrators are experiencing, companies must look beyond what they’ve done before, because doing the same thing and getting the same results no longer … Read More
Can resource allocation improvements help you bid a job profitably?
Would you send an Engineer to do an Installer’s job? Starting a bid with unrealistic resource allocation assumptions will negatively impact project profitability before the job even begins. It’s just one of the things to consider when bidding a project. … Read More
Dirty Data is Costing Your Business More Money than You Think
3 Steps to Get from Bad Data to Good Data – You can’t make good business decisions with dirty data. When you’re planning your resource allocation or you’re auditing your project accounting, if you don’t have one centralized business management software, there may be bad or missing data. That’s costing you precious money and time that can be better served helping your customers. … Read More
5 Things to Consider when Bidding a Project
The Art & Science of a Good Project Job Costing Process – Not all projects are created equal. It would be nice if there was an exact science to bidding a project but sadly many factors come into play that could malign your latest bid. You need art and science, a job costing system in place, to make it work. … Read More
Job Costing Survival Guide Introduced by Business Process Management Leader, Solutions360,
New Job Costing Survival Guide Illuminates Best Practices and Helps Businesses Assess their Current Job Costing Process to Ultimately Improve Project Profit Margins Newmarket, Ontario – December 2012 – Solutions360, a leader in business process management and PSA software … Read More
