Yearly Archives: 2021

Understand the Power of Variable Costs

Posted on January 11, 2021 in Around the Web ,Blog by

  Integrators that understand the power of variable costs know that every dollar saved goes directly to profits. This is Part 1 in our new blog series from Joel Harris, which explains the power of variable costs for your integration business. More than 20 years ago, I discovered the hidden profit enhancement found in focusing on reducing overhead costs, and on making certain that direct costs were truly variable costs. My company had acquired a failed roll-up with a national footprint, with great customers and […]

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The Time Billing Paradox

Posted on January 4, 2021 in Blog ,Improve Financial Management ,Increase Project Profitability ,Solutions360 by

What is the best way to get your team to buy in to the importance of time tracking? On this episode of the Navigator, Brad Dempsey and Brad Malone talk through the time billing paradox, and the struggle people have when they hear the two scary words – time tracking. This is one of the biggest hornet’s nests Solutions360 deals with during an ERP implementation. One of the main issues is that people feel micromanaged when they must be responsible for tracking their time. It […]

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Does Everyone Understand the Purpose of Your Processes?

Posted on December 14, 2020 in Business Process Improvement ,Industry Discussion ,Q360 by

What is the purpose of your processes? And does everyone understand the value? If an integrator is engaging in an activity on a daily basis, people need to know why. Everyone should understand why processes are in place. Mature companies document and improve their processes incrementally — in a nonjudgmental fashion — attempting to remove waste, variation, or steps that don’t add value. They don’t throw everything away and start over, blaming everyone who was ever involved in creating the process. That would be a […]

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Building Accountability in Your Integration Business

Posted on November 30, 2020 in Business Process Improvement ,Industry Discussion by

Today, we’re talking about project accountability, or count-on-ability. Welcome to another episode of The Navigator, with Brad Malone, Managing Partner at Navigate Management Consulting, and Brad Dempsey, CEO of Solutions 360. Project accountability means that we all have our roles, and our responsibilities. In previous sessions we discussed the importance of telling the truth early and throughout a project lifecycle. And we have also talked about managing the inevitable change that happens during a project. It takes a village to raise a child, and it […]

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Best Practices for Managing Change Orders

Posted on October 26, 2020 in Improve Financial Management ,Increase Project Profitability ,Industry Discussion ,Solutions360 by

Managing change orders is important, starting day one of every project. Imagine you have accounting records, and you know how much money you started with at the beginning of a project, and you know how much money you ended up with, but you have no way of knowing how you got from point A to point B. Realistically, change orders are the progression and the path of your project. Having change orders in place instills process through the approval and creation of change orders. It […]

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Aligning Behavior with Values and Ethics

Posted on October 13, 2020 in Change Management ,Industry Discussion ,Q360 by

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 manifests itself from the motivation behind how an employee does what he does once he’s part of a process — it’s his attitude and corresponding actions. Ignorance has to do with competence, not behavior. Entitlement, laziness, and ambivalence manifest themselves as behavior. The goal is […]

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Communicate Assumptions and Risks to Create Common Sense

Posted on August 24, 2020 in Business Process Improvement ,Industry Discussion ,Q360 by

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 common sense. Many times I’ve discovered their lack of common sense three-quarters of the way through a project, which is a little late. I mean, they’re intelligent, hard-working, and committed to delivering a quality product and/or service, but sometimes they just don’t seem to think […]

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