Your employees and colleagues get bored in meetings. It’s a fact, supported by plenty of data. I could tell you that, according to an infographic by Emily Pidgeon, 50% of people find meetings unproductive. Or I could point out that “25% of meetings are spent discussing irrelevant issues.”   But I probably don’t need to do... Read More

A reporting tools riddle: what’s faster than your hand, a calculator, and a file cabinet worth of documents? Before you answer that one, try another. What’s faster than two software applications that need data exported or converted to make a report? If you guessed ERP software, congratulations. You get a prize. As you may already... Read More

The eternal struggle: finishing projects on time, within budget, and making sure they’re profitable. Even with project management software, a skilled manager, and a dynamite team all working within carefully structured tasks and deadlines, there are always obstacles. Scopes change. Orders change. Members of your project team get sick and miss work. No matter what... Read More

As you read this, there’s a good chance your employees are busy typing. Listen closely and you’ll hear the familiar clicking. It’s a sound we associate with being busy and, therefore, with productivity. And maybe it is, for those employees who work creatively to manage, interpret, and project information. But you likely have those other... Read More

Your cabinets are overstuffed. You’ve filed things incorrectly: receipts, bills, service agreements, invoices. If your document isn’t in the right place, you don’t just have to go through one folder. You have to go through all of them. We all keep records, and whether we have home offices or just a filing cabinet, losing important... Read More