Job costing is one of the most complicated issues that Solutions360 has seen in the integration industry. Solutions360 has worked with more than 200 integrators, and fewer than 10 percent were satisfied with their job costing process, prior to implementing … Read More
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Dashboards in Q360 Turn Data into Information
What differentiates integrators that use dashboards in Q360 from those that don’t? Today, Tofiq Indawala, Director of Product Management, is joined by Brad Malone from Navigate Management Consulting to talk about dashboards in Q360. How do Solutions360 customers use dashboards? … Read More
We Challenge You to Set 5 Goals for 2020
What processes will lead to you achieving your 2020 goals? This is a guest blog post by Chris Peterson, Principal at Vector Firm. Toward the end of 2006, I was planning my goals for the following year. I realized that … Read More
How Do You Know You Are Ready for an ERP Implementation?
This week, our CEO, Brad Dempsey, is joined by Brad Malone, Partner at Navigate Management Consulting, to talk about change management and ERP implementations. More specifically, how do integrators know when they are ready for all the change that will … Read More
Will Your Integration Business Survive Corporate Adolescence?
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 … Read More
Avoid the Pitfalls of Business Process Improvement Initiatives
The business of improving your business is serious business. How many times have you or someone on your team tinkered with a process and achieved a less than desired result? Perhaps it wasn’t adopted, or only partially adopted by a few … Read More
We Put Ourselves in Our Customers’ Shoes
Best practices for integrators preparing for an ERP implementation is a common topic on our blog. We focus on this topic, because almost nobody talks about ERP implementations as going smoothly. In fact, Q360 customers widely acknowledge the importance of … Read More
Are Your Revenues Increasing, But Not Your Profits?
If the 9th Annual Integration Business Outlook presented by CI and NSCA is any indication, integrators will be focused on increasing profitability in 2019. Some of the biggest takeaways of the CI 2019 State of the Industry report are that … Read More
The Company Assessment
By David McNutt Every year I make the oft-annoying appointment to see my personal doctor for a checkup during which he asks all about my life. What am I eating and drinking, how am I sleeping, am I exercising, what … Read More
Better Decision Making – Part 2
What is a decision? Part One of our discussion about decision making addressed how managers should approach them. Part Two raises some ideas and questions for further consideration about who should make these decisions: you or someone else. But first, what … Read More