7/12/10 at 12:57 PM by Frank Coker Building a successful company is all about management. Fuzzy management leads to no traction. Precision management leads to predictable growth, ability to respond to changing market conditions and, in the end, a company that has greater value in the market. This is a fact of life that has very few exceptions.
With that in mind, we have just expanded the…
7/7/10 at 2:17 PM by Frank Coker CoreConnex is excited to announce CompTIA as our newest channel partner. CompTIA is now offering the Corelytics™ Financial Dashboard, CompTIA Edition, to all its members. Corelytics Lite will be available for FREE for the first 12 months and $49 per year thereafter, and Corelytics Standard is available for $49 per month plus a $180 setup fee. CompTIA members can sign up at…
7/6/10 at 7:49 AM by Frank Coker What are the basic food groups for a healthy body? Did you eat your Wheaties today? What are the basic resources for a healthy business? What does your business eat for breakfast? If your business is not getting a balanced diet of key resources and direction, it simply is not going to be strong and healthy.
So what are the…
6/16/10 at 2:03 PM by The Professor Many vendors and industry pundits promote tools and business concepts as if all IT service companies and solution providers were all the same – as if their concepts for growing a profitable business would work equally well for all companies in the industry. In fact there are at least 10 significantly different business models for IT services companies according to…
4/14/10 at 8:36 PM by Frank Coker CoreConnex is very excited to announce Tigerpaw as our newest channel partner in a growing list of PSA software vendors. Our partners are a world class community of innovators who are passionate about improving the financial health and performance of their customers.
Tigerpaw is a leading developer of end-to-end business automation and service management software. Tigerpaw empowers thousands of businesses to…
4/9/10 at 4:24 PM by Frank Coker Your past performance can be an excellent predictor of your future. With the right analytical tools, you can get a pretty clear picture of a range of potential futures – some good, some bad. Once you understand the range of possibilities, it becomes much easier to choose the actions that lead to the most positive future.
4/5/10 at 6:02 PM by The Professor I would like introduce myself to you. I am a new member of the CoreConnex team: The Professor. I am available to all Corelytics™ Financial Dashboard users to answer questions about managing finances, setting goals, evaluating ratios, understanding benchmarks, using the dashboard and other related topics. Just email your questions to me at theprofessor@coreconnex.com.
My goal is to help you…
3/30/10 at 5:06 PM by Frank Coker Understanding financial ratios is an important part of managing company performance. Large companies have had a long tradition of using ratios as a way to monitor and manage business performance. Small companies have tended to not use ratios because of the work involved in doing the calculations. That is all changing with tools like the Corelytics Financial Dashboard that not…
3/23/10 at 5:00 PM by Frank Coker “Trajectory” is not a common business term. It’s usually associated with missiles, footballs and career paths. But it can be a very insightful way to visualize your business.
Most business owners know that you need to “take aim” if you want to hit a target. Even so, most business owners don’t aim their business focus with any real precision and…
3/22/10 at 7:14 AM by Ray Makela Dashboards are relatively new to the small business community (under 50 employees), yet the SBA (Small Business Administration) reports small businesses make up at least 50% of the nonfarm GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in the United States. The potential for dashboards to help this important sector is just as signficant (maybe more so) as with large enterprises.
The challenge is in being able…
