Yearly Archives: 2019

Operations in the Summer Months

Posted on August 19, 2019 in Around the Web ,Blog by

by Mike Abernathy Getting Back to Basics On a daily basis at NSCA, I chat with integrators about being more efficient. Increasing efficiency leads to more time being available, higher levels of profitability and happier customers (assuming, of course, that quality isn’t sacrificed for efficiency). Integrators often ask us how they can increase profits without adding dollars to the top line. We frequently hear this question: “Our sales are growing, but our profits are not. Now what?” This problem is nothing new; in fact, we’ve […]

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Solutions360 and D-Tools Create the Foundation for Outstanding Customer Experiences

Posted on August 12, 2019 in Achieve Business Growth ,Automate Operations ,Blog ,Solutions360 by

Solutions360 and D-Tools share a common vision to help integrators increase productivity, efficiency and standardization. From the first interaction with a new customer to the final service touch point, you want the design and engineering experience to be seamless and impressive. But using disparate systems and tools can make that a challenge. We’ve got good news: There’s an answer! Announcing the D-Tools and Solutions360 integration “We are very excited about the integration,” says Tofiq Indawala. “Our customers handle a lot of functions in Q360 including […]

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Metrics and KPIs Should Drive the Right Behavior

Posted on July 8, 2019 in Blog ,Business Process Improvement ,Industry Discussion by

First, you have to determine, the performance or the behavior you want. Only then can you determine how to measure that performance. This week, Brad Dempsey and Brad Malone, or as we like to call them, The Brad Show, discusses what kind of KPIs integrators should track, and how to use those KPIs to manage accountability. If we look at the typical integration project, the two worst metrics are also the most commonly tracked –  Are you on time and on budget? This is a […]

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Will Your Integration Business Survive Corporate Adolescence?

Posted on July 2, 2019 in Achieve Business Growth ,Around the Web ,Change Management by

Without even defining corporate adolescence, you can figure out what it means. Corporate adolescence is a term Navigate likes to use to describe that awkward stage in a company’s life when they are no longer small—but not yet large.  You have some of the characteristics of each but are not quite one or the other.  And it’s downright uncomfortable. Almost everyone survives human adolescence (somehow).  Unfortunately, the mortality rate for companies is somewhat higher: some don’t.  But the odds of corporate survival go up dramatically […]

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Use Your Data to Circumvent Risk

Posted on May 27, 2019 in Around the Web ,Improve Financial Management ,Industry Discussion by

A blog entry based upon The AV Profession podcast with Tim Albright and guest David McNutt of Navigate Management Consulting. This podcast is part of a series from The AV Profession about risk management and risk assessment. Today is a deep dive, talking about the risks of not having enough information to make the right decisions in your integration business. “When we work with companies and we begin to pull back some layers of non-transparency, we often see that companies don’t have a lot of […]

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Revenue vs. Growth

Posted on May 20, 2019 in Around the Web ,Industry Discussion by

We’re growing, but what does that really mean? We have heard so much over the past five or ten years about the concept of growth. Everybody talks about it, but does anybody really knows what it means? What does growth mean to you? That is the topic of this week’s video with Brad Malone and David McNutt. “Especially in the last three years, with the economy opening up, integrators are seeing double digit growth and they’re really proud of it,” says Malone. “But what they’re […]

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From Service to Support

Posted on May 6, 2019 in Blog ,Change Management ,Industry Discussion by

Service is the act of doing. While support is the act of doing with the interest of your customer’s success in mind. The evolution of service to support is a really hot topic with technology integrators these days. There is widespread acknowledgement that creating streams of revenue from managed services and support will help to create predictable revenue that can make your integration business more sustainable in the long run. Steve Riley, one of our resident experts on support, shares his wisdom on this topic in […]

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