9 Steps to Improve Operational Efficiency Your company’s ability to maximize the ratio of output to input affects how well your business operates as a whole. Whether you’re looking to increase profitability, enhance your customer experience, or streamline processes … Read More
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How Do You Spell WBS?
What is a work breakdown structure? In today’s video, Tofiq Indawala, Director of Product Management, is joined by Brad Malone, from Navigate Management Consulting to discuss the whole concept of a work breakdown structure, and how that impacts project management. … Read More
Best Practices for Preparing for Your Busy Season as an Integrator
From all the conversations we’ve had with integration owners, the one challenge we hear about a lot is “busy season.” There are no hard-and-fast rules in the systems integration industry – mainly because no two businesses are exactly the same. … Read More
Q360 Is the Best Workflow Tool for Integrators
What does it mean that Q360 is a business process management and workflow tool? When you look at an integration business in terms of workflows, Q360 helps to organize data so processes can be standardized across the organization. This allows … Read More
Does Everyone Understand the Purpose of Your Processes?
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 … Read More
Distinguish Competence from Behavior to Maximize Performance Improvement
When managing people, competence and behavior are often indistinguishable — and that’s a problem for integrators that want to maximize performance. Many managers automatically link competence and behavior together. As a result, when an employee is doing something incorrectly, … Read More
The Power of Forecasting for Your Integration Business
Welcome back to our series of discussions about metrics and how to build the principles of maturity into your integration business. We’ve talked in a number of these sessions about mature companies versus younger companies or immature companies. And what … Read More
4 Mistakes That Are Hurting Your XaaS Sales Approach
Changing the Way You Sell HaaS and Financing Ultimately, adopting an As-A-Service or subscription model will change your business for the better, but there is more to making the change than building out the offering. Once you are ready to … Read More
Video Demo: Q360 Cash Flow Forecasting Dashboard
We are excited to release the newly updated cash flow forecasting dashboard in Q360 Why is cash flow forecasting important? The object of cash flow forecasting is to compare how much cash you receive each month to how much cash … Read More
Don’t Be a Cash-Blind Owner Part 2 – Sources & Uses of Cash
What makes a financially successful integration business? One with high profits? One with a solid financial plan? Many owners believe that, if profits are solid, then the company is solid. As we revealed in Part 1 of our blog series, Don’t … Read More