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Job Costing Software is Key to Construction Profits

Even in the best of economies more contractors go belly up than not. Knowing this, many builders reason that the best solution for dealing with risk is to keep their business modest. And yet, many fail.

Nonetheless, for every failure, there is a success. What separates the winners from the losers? Job Costing software and best practices.

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Five New Management Metrics You Need To Know

Sometimes we focus too much on traditional metrics, here is a great post on non financial measurements….


This is a guest post from James Slavet of venture firm Greylock Partners. Slavet’s investments include Coupons.com, Groupon, One Kings Lane and Redfin. Greylock Partners has invested in Facebook, LinkedIn and Pandora..

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Have you Experienced Project Management Miscommunication?

Does this picture remind you of your last project?  This is one of my favorite comic strips about project management communication, or miscommunication.  I first came across this comic strip about 6 years ago, it was posted outside of a cubical at a new client site.  I thought it poignantly demonstrated how easily miscommunication can occur in a project.

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Business Intelligence to Another Level

Troy Sorzano, Director of IT at Expert Technology Associates shares some of the cool things he and his team are doing with Q360 Professional Services Automation Software.

On another note I wanted to show you some cool SQL reports Bill has been creating.  He has been making drill down reports that are not the standard List drill-to-Form relationship and at the same time he has been supplying subtotals and groups in the reports so you don’t have to select a column to add them up, which unto it self is powerful.  Also the drill through calls new SQL reports or forms depending on the row data selected so we can cascade these reports to whatever degree we need.  Here’s an example:

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