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, … Read More
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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 … Read More
Forecasting for Successful Project Management
How do you manage and forecast resources in you integration business? “One of the biggest problems we see is that integrators aren’t laying out their projects profitably right from the beginning,” says Brad Dempsey, CEO of Solutions360. One of the … Read More
Video Demo 4 – Q360 Simplifies Project Change Orders
There’s no such thing as an AV project with a change order, right? In this edition of Clear Talk, we continue with the topic of project management. A big part of project management is focusing on the equipment, material, and … Read More
Video Demo 3 – How to Monitor Project Profitability with Q360
In this edition of Clear Talk, Tofiq Indawala shows us how to monitor project profitability in Q360. First of all, who needs to look at project profitability data? Typically, the accounting team, executives, as well as the sales team and … Read More
8 Surprising New Profit Killers for Integrators to Watch For
As we speak to members and answer their questions, we tend to notice patterns. Recently, NSCA has been talking to integrators about “profit killers” – things that help us lose money. Do you fall prey to any of these? … Read More
Case Study: How Solutions360 helps SVT make better business decisions
Roman Burchart remembers the days when project costing at SVT was time-consuming and rife with tedium and murkiness. “We had very limited visibility into our actual project costing,” says Burchart, the Chief Operating … Read More
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
How Integrators Provide Service With More Than a Smile
By Carolyn Heinze On May 22, 2014 An excerpt from the full article The customer may not always be right, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t deserve stellar service. In fact, great service is not a … Read More
When you can’t trust the numbers, what do you do?
“Our business is in growth mode” Says Kelly McCarthy, CEO of Genesis Integration, “and when we tried to get data from the CRM program, the project management system and accounting system to get a clear view of the business, I couldn’t trust the numbers.” When … Read More
