Every day I hear of companies that want an All in One solution, ie: Sales, CRM, PMS, Admin, Billing etc
Unfortunately, the best you can hope for is that you can get at least some of the solutions ‘All in one’. But more importantly than this is that you get the ‘Right’ few solutions all in one, ie: SALES / CRM, or QUOTES / PMS / INVOICING or OUTLOOK / EXCHANGE / PDA access. The key is to have a good think about grouping the solutions that need to be together, and those that should be apart.
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I think there is a fine line between clients contributing to a products’ development and client designing the product. Definately, clients should be contributors of ideas, but often they are not in the business of product development, usability or databases, so shouldn’t be ‘designing’ the tools.
Another way to put it, is “Just because I can drive [...]
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Based on my own experience and that of many participants in the www.SoftwareCEO.com forums it seems that the ‘Slow but steady’ is winning the race against the ‘Wham, bam, thank you M’aam’ software co’s springing up. It’s the classic age-old debate of ‘Experience vs skills/speed’.
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Here’s a thought to ponder whilst MSN’ing a mate, yakking on the phone, chatting up the new blonde girl over the coffee machine… There is an actual cost to ‘mucking around’ and being inefficient. Not just the fact that you get more done with focussed effort, but that you are missing out on potential earnings and [...]
We’re at a point in one of our businesses where we need to expand infrastructure further than the available cash/flow can take us. It’s quite a character building place to be. For a few months we need to turn heads to development again (whilst maintaining sales activity) so we can have more products available to offer the current site traffic.
