Reducing Inventory Costs in a Multi-Echelon Logistics Network
Inventory Cost Reduction In a previous article, we showed a Glimpse.SX solution that minimized transshipment cost for a statewide multi-echelon …
Supply Chain Performance Analytics for Inventory, Supplier, and Fulfillment Management
By Bruce Brownlee A real-time live-data supply chain dashboard with actionable analytics can be a powerful tool for optimizing inventory, supplier, …
We Are All Startups Again, Starting Over
By George Fandos Samuel Rutherford, a Scottish pastor in the 17th century, said when he was cast into the cellars …
Why Culture Matters in Mergers and Acquisitions
By Bruce Brownlee Companies may seem completely compatible at the beginning of the merger or acquisition process. The legal and financial …
Project Management: Building a Project Management Competency
By Dan Divinski Make a difference by building a center of excellence with project management as a competency. As indicated in …
Project Management: Utilizing a Reactive Methodology
When projects begin to fail with a trend of missing the end date, how do you respond? As indicated in …
Project Management: Utilizing a Proactive Methodology
By Dan Divinski with contributions from Will Cooper and Maelyn Wisch Project Management: Utilizing a Proactive Methodology As pointed out in our …
Project Management: Why Projects Fail
By Dan Divinski 70% of projects fail, but we can do better There Must Be Stakeholder Buy-In From my experience, …
23 Benefits of Business Acquisition
There are at least twenty three practical reasons for a business to acquire another company. In an acquisition, both businesses …
Rapid Response Business Intelligence Team
What is the Rapid Response Business Intelligence Team? The rapid response business intelligence team is a team of two or …
How to Recover from the Covid-19 Economy with Real-Time Data
By Bruce Brownlee The Covid-19 Economy and Real-time Data The unprecedented speed of decline in the world economy requires speed of …
What if You Have to Integrate Multiple ERP, CRM, and Billing Systems
Hint: You Don’t Have to Wait for a Data Warehouse! What if through mergers, acquisitions, and territorial expansion, your company …
The Four Steps to Business Intelligence Dashboard Success
Get Profitable Insights from Your Analytical Dashboards Business intelligence dashboards make an impressive appearance at presentations. Their real value results …
What is Conversion Rate?
“Conversion rate” can refer to any of four different meanings, depending on the context of the marketing or sales conversation. As …
Lead Source Yield
Lead source yield refers to the productivity of a lead source. This can be measured and reported as the number …
What are Lead Pipeline and Lead Funnel?
Leads pipeline A Leads Pipeline defines the sequential stages through which a lead passes in the sales process. Typical stages (sometimes called …
Bias Towards Action. Shortest Time to Maximum Profit
Boom, you’re dead and you didn’t even see it coming. Speed and accuracy in business have never been more important …
Payment Protection Program – Loan Forgiveness Calculator
🔈 The entire PPP Program has been at the top of everyone’s minds. If you are like me, you’re likely …
Payment Protection Payment – Keeping Track
What’s the number one tip businesses are talking about when it comes to keeping track of the Payment Protection Payment? …
We Must Sell Our Way Out Of This
We must sell our way out of this pandemic, we cannot cut our way out, deliver our way out, we …