Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2014

Whether it’s A/B testing, prototyping, lean development, we seem to be the victims of declining qualities of service in so many tools. Some suppliers have adopted a policy of having their products constantly in “Beta” as if that were a reasonable rationale for poor quality. Over time, that’s eroded.

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Service Minimum Viable Product A/B testing Government 90

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 18, 2018

By way of illustration, I’ve spent much of my career loosely involved with telecommunications, whether the operating companies, equipment, or services providers. By way of illustration, I’ve spent much of my career loosely involved with telecommunications, whether the operating companies, equipment, or services providers.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 11, 2017

Twilio is rarely the issue — they’ve made tremendous strides in delivering a high quality API for VoIP dialers. Fast internet doesn’t mean “quality” internet. Make VoIP a priority — Quality of Service (QoS) is key. This doesn’t mean there aren’t other factors at play. Making Calls? Know your headsets.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2015

It seems to me the best business to start these days is an App business focused on sales or marketing. I wrote about the Proliferation Of Marketing/Sales Apps. In the past year the number of Marketing Technology Apps have gone from 947 to 1876, in 43 different marketing technology categories. They built great tools.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

That’s $15K we are paying for apps for each sales person–not including all the services and support around them. The other day, I was sitting in the airport and had a few idle minutes. For some reason, I started playing with my IPhone. I started moving some of the apps around to make them easier to find, based on my utilization.

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Niche Sales Entertainment CRM 51

Partners in Excellence

JULY 15, 2016

From Wikipedia: “In computer science, thrashing occurs when a computer’s virtual memory subsystem is in a constant state of paging, rapidly exchanging data in memory for data on disk, to the exclusion of most application-level processing. This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or collapse greatly.

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