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Project vs Process: What’s the Difference?
What exactly is a project vs process, and how are these two things different? Which one is better? And what do project and process management involve? There are advocates of both projects and processes as keys to business performance, and there’s been considerable emphasis on project management and process management in recent years. To arrive at the answers, it’s important to understand the definition projects and processes and the unique purposes that they serve [...]
Find Your Why – Improve Your Life by Defining Your Purpose
Whether it’s in your business or your personal life, you can easily find yourself disillusioned, uncertain, or simply unhappy. Every day, we’re confronted with tasks, responsibilities, and pressures that are all about what we have to do in order to make it through another day, get to the next paycheck, pay the bills, and care for ourselves and our families. But how often do we ever take the time to ask why we’re doing all [...]
How Much Should I worry About Company Culture?
Company culture has become an increasingly important aspect of building a great company, attracting and retaining good people, and enjoying a successful career. In the past, business or corporate “culture” was equated with dress codes or typical managerial and employee behavior, like aggressively climbing the organizational ladder or taking a cutthroat approach to competition. But company culture is far more than surface-level aesthetics or behavioral tendencies in an organization. Just as human cultures in the [...]
Bridge Thinking
Recently, I’ve been thinking about bridges and how “bridge thinking” might help you to be successful. Bridges have always intrigued me. Even since I was a child, I would spot bridges and beg my parents to change their route in order to go over the biggest ones. A favorite bridge is the Navajo Bridge at the Grand Canyon. This bridge made it possible for travelers to access the North Rim of the canyon without having to [...]
Is Your Data Actually Safe with a Cloud Provider?
With so many high-profile cases of hacking being reported in the news every week, it’s natural for us all to feel a bit scared and apprehensive about the security of our data. One common concern among companies is whether it’s safe to store data in the cloud, particularly with a third party cloud provider for services like CRM. The natural tendency among many people is to think that entrusting your data to a cloud provider [...]
How do I fix my landing page? It’s failing!
Ok, so you’ve got an awesome product ready to go. You think it’s the best piece of sliced bread and it’s going to revolutionize the world, make everyone’s lives better and make your company rocket to the top. To that product, you've built out a landing page, where you've highlighted key product features and services it provides. Your telling everyone just how fabulous it is and explained why they should buy it. You've probably even [...]
What’s New at PlanPlus Online? Release Notes Q1-2015
Over the past 6 months we have been working relentlessly on optimizing our development techniques and improving our processes to allow for more responsive deployments for bug fixes and new features. This is really starting to pay off and we are excited about the future. The fruits of our teams diligence in this area has led to 6 key releases in just 4 months, addressing functionality issues across the application, as well implementation and [...]
Productivity with Purpose
We hear frequent reports that productivity continues to increase in business, especially with the application and use of new technologies. But it also seems like we’re all working harder and managing more tasks without gaining any ground or enjoying the benefits of increased productivity and efficiency. What’s missing? Why does it seem like we’re getting more things done with less effort but we’re actually working more and never reaching an end? This happens because many [...]
The Basics of a Sales Forecast
Businesses of all sizes and levels of maturity will inevitably confront the need or desire for a sales forecast. This forecast is a projection of sales results at the end of a defined period of measurement such as a month, quarter, or year. These future expectations are critically important in projecting revenue and profit, measuring progress against company sales goals, and in planning and schedule production or assigning resources to support the output required to meet [...]
Social Media Predictions for marketing 2015
With many changes going through last year when it comes to social media, you can be sure to expect some changes coming for 2015. Video has become a content of choice In 2015, video will be dominating social media content. Regular segments such as podcasts and blog posts will become their own form of content that drives social engagement and other marketing goals. SlideShare becomes the youtube for business Instagram is to facebook as SlideShare [...]