An important part of any presentation is knowing who your audience will be. If your pitch is tailored toward finance and you walk into an engineering oriented group you will be in trouble from the start. A little advance scouting goes a long way. Scouting is even more important when the meeting is over the…
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E-commerce and the Flexible Supply Chain
Traditional retail models are moving more and more to add an e-commerce aspect to their business models. However, adding this aspect of the business is not as simple as just creating a website and listing all of your products on it. There are a large number of distribution concerns that need to be taken into…
Green Design and LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) seems to be the coming trend for quite a few businesses. Some companies seem to just be jumping on the bandwagon so they don’t get left behind, some are using it as a marketing play and then some see it as their part toward being environmentally friendly. The…
Generation Y is Putting Its Foot Down
Every other week there seems to be a new story about how Generation Y is disrupting the way that business has been done over the past few generations. They won’t work 60 hours, they don’t want to be stuck in a cubicle with their head down, they enjoy shiny new gadgets, and they have no…
The Power of Technology
Technology can provide a powerful way to differentiate your company. Whether it is your ability to use technology to lower your costs, improve your service or increase your visibility, technology should be on your radar. The cost of implementing different forms of technology has decreased in terms of cost and ease of execution. A few…
Value Added Service
One of the keys to good customer service is exceeding your customer’s expectations. By going above and beyond what they expected you to provide you place yourself in their mind as someone they’ll want to come back to again in the future. This mornings post from Mike Myatt on Influence Quotient points out that customers…
Scaling Innovation
Innovation is one of the fundamentals to making any business successful. It keeps a company on the leading edge of their industry and improves customer service, employee satisfaction, and profitability. Unfortunately, the current trend in innovation for most companies is to go for the long ball and try to come up with the idea that…
What is Consulting
It seems sometimes that every company out there has its own definition of what consulting actually is. Add to that the fact that many people have an image ingrained in their mind about it that was formed by pop culture (most notably the Bobs in Office Space). I feel it is important for me to…
Introduction
For those early adopters out there who may have found this blog before it even started, I would just like to hello and give a brief introduction of what this blog is planned to be, what I plan on covering, and where I hope to take it. Integrated Strategies is a full service consulting firm….