Navigate Management Consulting announces that Joel Harris has joined the firm. Joel brings more than 25 years of experience in executive and leadership positions in systems integration businesses where he has a proven track record of successfully leading, designing, implementing, and executing organizational transformation as well as efficiency-driven improvements. Joel
Back By Popular Demand: Establishing Core Values and Ethics is one of Brad Malone’s ‘most read’ pieces of content of all time. Although it was written several years ago, this article remains every bit as relevant today. We have all heard how different generations of people (baby boomers, Gen
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series on forecasting, Joel Harris details three critical KPIs to help integrators predict future results, followed by how to forecast revenue from your monthly backlog. In this final installment we unlock the predictive value of your new order history. Does your project
As someone who values business decisions based on hard data, I have long mined my backlog data to determine how I can use it to predict profit in a period. In a project-driven integration business, if you can accurately forecast revenue, you can also accurately predict that period’s net
Working with several companies in last few months, and in many conversations with all levels of the organization, I’ve reminded myself that I’m saying things my Dad used to say – which is fine – I like and respect my Dad. One of those was “praise in public, correct in
While there are many Key Performance Indicators that are useful in managing your systems integration business, Navigate finds three that are critical and not valued highly enough. These three critical Key Performance Indicators help us predict future results: Monthly P&L, specifically recognized revenue for the period Monthly new orders
As we enter the six month of “lock-down” within this pandemic, I’d like to share one of the themes I heard over and over from my virtual clients – independent of the role (Executives to Managers to Technicians). Many organizations are struggling to measure the performance of their people
Welcome back to the final installment in our blog series from Joel Harris, Understanding Variable Costs is Wildly Important for Your Integration Business. How do you handle routine seasonal variability, peak demand, and one-time opportunities in your integration business? Most integration businesses I work with have a hired permanent
What is the best way for integrators to address seasonality? This is Part 3 of our blog series from Joel Harris, Understanding Variable Costs is Wildly Important for Your Integration Business. In the first two installments, Harris shared his experience of using a variable cost structure to transform an
Welcome to the second installment in Navigate’s guest blog series from Joel Harris, Understanding Variable Costs is Wildly Important for Your Integration Business. In Part 1, Joel shared his experience of using a variable cost structure to transform an acquisition from losses into profit. Since then, he has applied
