What is the strategic imperative for your integration business? In the first two parts of this blog series, Joel Harris talked about how strategic planning is essential for your integration business, and it is an activity that integrators should engage in every year. Today, we continue this conversation with
In Part I of this blog series, we talked about how strategic planning is essential for your integration business. Today, we take that discussion a step further to explain why integrators should conduct strategic planning every year. Many times, we don’t start planning for adverse events until they appear,
What is your excuse for not having a living, actionable, updated strategic plan? We accept the wisdom of the ages that planning for the future is important, yet many of us are reluctant to invest the time, energy and resources into planning for our business success. Strategic planning is
In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY
When all is said and done, a lot more gets said than done. What is the antidote to this? Ruthless Consistency! The underlying premise of Ruthless Consistency is that leaders, despite good intentions, are not as committed as they need to be. According to Harvard Business Review, most studies still
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
There is a lot of drama and myths around finances, and this is largely because people do not understand the meaning of the numbers. On this episode of The AV Profession, Tim Albright and Brad Malone discuss how financial metrics can give your integration business the power of knowledge.
How many days of selling do you think you have left this year? Think about it: you have three days this week, five days next week, and four days the week of the 16th. If you think you’re going to get anyone’s attention on Friday the 20th, or any day of the
It’s no secret that at Navigate, we love metrics! Performance metrics are critical for the success of your integration business. Without the ability to measure performance, management cannot be effective. And you can’t determine what constitutes a good performance without having good metrics. One of the buzzwords we are hearing
On this AV Profession, we look at the importance of growth tracks for your employees. How you define them and the best way to set up a compensation plan for your employees. Navigate’s Brad Malone talks about developing your employees and empowering them for success.
