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Monday, August 30th, 2010
 A recent report from the Aberdeen Group, a Boston-situated provider of fact-based business research for corporations and individuals, suggests that project-based businesses—including engineering firms—could benefit dramatically from the adoption of both enterprise-level project management tools and the mindset to put them to effective use. (more…)
Tags: engineering firms, Enterprise Software, PM tools, Professional Services, project management, project scheduling
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
 Public Relations (PR) specialists are unique beasts. In their sweaty palms rests the fate of any number of companies; every client a potential runaway hit or crash-and-burn failure. It’s the promise of the former—secured with an excellent PR campaign that attracts serious media coverage at a fraction of the cost of advertising—that keeps clients, of every stripe, engaging these professionals. (more…)
Tags: IP Phone Systems, Public Relations, Public Relations Software, Public Relations Software Automation, Public Relations Telephony, Public Relations Web Presence
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
 Back in the day, the advertising field was populated by a scattering of small but innovative firms—little knots of original thought, whose output was impressive for its cleverness, if not for its efficiency. But that cottage industry has evolved with time, consolidating into corporate leviathans with global scale and massive reach. (more…)
Tags: Advertising, Advertising Agency, Advertising in 2010, Evolution of Advertising, Professional Services
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
 Forecasting – Essential to Every Strategic Business Decision
Call it an art or call it a science—just so long as you call it essential to the continued success of your professional services firm.
Forecasting is the material acknowledgement of the much-ballyhooed crie de coeur that time is money. The more you shell out doing stuff that’s providing no return, the more you’ve wasted. Full stop.
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Tags: forecast planning, forecasting, forecasting methods, forecasting technology
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
360 Visibility was chosen among competitors to implement their proprietary software, 360 PropertyManager© for Dynamics NAV 2009 to bring precision and power to the Hamilton Port Authority. 360 PropertyManager© will add enhanced functionality to both the marina and port-wide property management, while managing essential business processes for the Hamilton Port Authority. (more…)
Tags: commercial property management software, property management software
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
 Ah, the ever-lovin’ harmonized sales tax and all of the harmony it purports to spread.
No Harmony for Property Managers
Harmony is in particularly short supply in the property management field these days, as those professionals charged with overseeing large-scale physical interests struggle to understand this new layer of complication the government has seen fit to impose on their lives.
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Tags: HST, Property Management
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
“Nothing in this world is free,” my father used to say.
There are lots of people out there who could stand to take that message on board—at both ends of its delivery.
Most at fault? The so-called businesses who regularly clutter the airwaves with outrageous extensions of impossible generosity. “Free!” their ads scream. “Free value assessments!” “Free project scoping!” (more…)
Tags: Business Relationships, Deliver Value, Network Assessment, Proposals
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
In a recent report by SPI Research, “The 2010 Professional Services Maturity Model Benchmark”, Maconomy has been recognised as one of the 11 best-in-class Professional Services organisations that significantly outperformed their peers worldwide.
The 11 companies dwarfed their peers on the following five benchmark scores: (more…)
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
 In a recent example of Barack Obama’s estimable prowess as an orator, the president referred to corporate America’s ability “to squeeze more productivity out of the workers that they’ve got; they’re working people longer hours, they’re doing more overtime, or not, but either way they’re producing the same amount of product or providing the same services without hiring more people. And that’s something that we’re going to have to really work on.”
True enough. But the work’s already afoot up here at 360 Visibility, where we long ago recognized the value of being smarter with fewer resources. (more…)
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
 The Aberdeen Group released a report recently that made me shake my head in one of those “I-told-you-so” kind of ways.
The study, called Delivering Project Profitability: On Time and Under Budget, looked at project-based businesses and the challenges they face in remaining profitable inside a distressed and developing world.
While it acknowledged that a subject like this can’t be accurately painted with a single brush, given the range of corporate activity bustling out there, it does provide some strong counsel on how everyone could get a leg up in this cramped economy by paying attention to certain proven practices. (more…)
Tags: projects early, projects on budget, projects on time
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