If your company chooses to sell equipment at a hardware margin of 5% or 10%, then you’re not conveying how important it is for your customer to have the level Read the full article…
Instead of racing to the bottom with slim margins, integration companies should be competing on the unique value they bring to customers. The 2022 Business & Leadership Conference (BLC) is Read the full article…
These three financial metrics are even more important for integrators than revenue. Brad Dempsey, CEO at business software provider Solutions360, recently joined Brad Malone, managing partner at Navigate Management Consulting, Read the full article…
NSCA knows all too well some of the actions integrators take that may have unforeseen consequences. The reason we’re so familiar with them is that we’ve either made these mistakes Read the full article…
In the integration business, we are notorious for tightly scrutinizing our project margins by looking at the gross profit on our hardware, and then the performance of our labor (install, Read the full article…
Never fund customer projects with your own money. It’s great advice that can be difficult to heed, especially during large, long-term engagements … but ignore it at your peril. Read the full article…
Integrators have to make a profit. There has been plenty of talk about transforming our industry into a managed services model. What does that really mean for NSCA members? Will Read the full article…
I’ve been on several member visits this fall already, and have been around some of our very best business leaders as part of my travels. Without exception, I’m seeing more Read the full article…
One of our members asked me recently about the direction and future of video conferencing as we know it today and where I see that all headed. To better answer Read the full article…
I was recently invited to tag along at three large scale technology implementation projects in existing facilities. On these trips I went with the purpose of observing and assessing the Read the full article…
