Category: Chuck’s Business Performance and Technology Corner
The Right Employee for the Job
When I ask retired business owners or entrepreneurs (I wonder in this economy, if there is such a thing) what was the one thing they didn’t miss about their business – one answer sticks out: “dealing with employees”. I can see the eyes rolling now…. Some of you will say “if they had a poor [...]
Creatures of Habit
Creatures of habit and the comfort zone. I have consistently opined about the varied ways that business look at their data, and I find the enigma of human behavior fascinating when it comes to ‘how and why’ somebody looks at something that relates to their business. With respect to hand held devices, I have often [...]
Information – Public or Not Public?
I was reading my Wall Street Journal last week (yeah, the hold in my hand paper type) and I ran across an article that discussed information and type of information should be divulged to employees and in what format. A public company has more stringent rules that can limit what can be shown and when, [...]
The Ultimate Tool for Business Analytics
The process of laying out the right combination of meaningful numbers or business metrics is part art and part science. It requires an understanding of the business, knowledge of the application(s) which contain the numbers, a mastery of various number crunching and presentation mechanisms, and the acumen for creating something that people will not only [...]
The Dashboard Primer
The 2011 Sleeter Group Accounting Solutions Conference was an incredible showcase of what is to come in our profession. How to use the IPad, cloud accounting implementations with new perspectives on customer interaction, better tools for practitioner – were mixed in with the traditional staples of inventory management and Excel usage. But one theme stood [...]
String Theory, Black Holes, and Business Analytics
One of the daily pleasures I maintain, is to take time to read my Wall Street Journal. Yes, I still like the feeling of holding a physical newspaper in front of me, just like I did when I was a kid. Back then it was sports first, then comics; now it is front page then [...]
Business Metrics–Static to Dynamic
The traditional methods of data gathering– especially in the world of compliance reporting – is to provide a report that can be run over and over again, with the same format, and with few options. In this article, I discuss the evolvement of business metrics, and what it will take to make information quickly available [...]
Business Metrics
This month, I am going to discuss one of my favorite topics – business metrics. I came across a small interview of Cisco CEO John Chambers, in which he discussed one of the larger strategies for Cisco’s partner community; he stated that the future role of the consultant will be more about ‘business outcomes’, as [...]
