Think your employees are taking this in stride? Think again. Every day, the world is glued to TV news outlets and websites watching the pandemic numbers rise. As the crisis worsens and businesses slow down and close, anxiety increases. Your workforce, your front line communicators to your clients, are nervously eyeing sinking retirements and basic […]
Management Consulting
How (& Why) to Reboot Your Marketing Process
You know it’s critical to focus on your customers. But when it comes to everything from planning to processes, most marketers face challenges with making organizational shifts – and making them quickly. Forrester has included Eric Dukart, Perficient’s Salesforce practice director, in its recent report Five New Perspectives on Marketing Process. Released today, the report […]
Relieving the Burden of Tax Reporting
Provisioning for income tax can be a complex process for large multi-national organizations to mid-sized companies with a consistent growth mode. The tax provisioning process involves determining the current tax amounts as well as calculating the deferred roll-forward amount. This process becomes even more complex when organizations have to account for Federal, Regional and International […]
Agile Street Smarts Series – Earned Value for Agile Projects
This blog is part of a series exploring Agile methodologies. Read the last post in the series here. Conventional Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress. It has the ability to combine measurements of scope, time, and costs (the Project Management Triangle) and is measured against a […]
Agile Street Smarts Series: Agile Estimation Levels and Techniques
This blog is part of a series exploring Agile methodologies. Read the last post in the series here. This post will explore Agile estimation and the different estimation techniques. Estimation is more the “art” than the “science” of program management so polish the crystal ball and let’s get started. Agile estimation is fundamentally different from […]
Agile Street Smarts – Creating High Performance Teams
What does it take to create a lean, mean project machine? Many have wrestled with this in the past. How do you get your teams to perform at optimal levels? SEMPERFI Support don’t smother, Empower and trust, Motivate , Put forth – communicate, Energize, Release – deliver, Fail fast, Iterate Turns out, Marine Seal […]
Executives and Cloud – Perfect Alignment
In today’s “digital everything” world with all the confusing jargon around the subject of “cloud”, it is easy to miss the point of why cloud technology is important. In this blog, I hope to remind the reader about some cloud basics. The reference to cloud in this blog is a more broadly defined definition of […]
Identifying Sustainability Opportunities in a Supply Chain Part 3
My last post outlines the opportunities companies can take to implement sustainability protocols. This final blog in the series continues to identify sustainability measures companies can take. When building a roadmap for the supply chain organization, leadership can look at sustainability in two ways: by considering the impact of each operational component in the supply […]
Issues – The sleeping dragons?
Black swan’s companion In any fantasy story, you must have read about the dragons asleep and guarding the treasures. The dragons unknowingly defend the treasures without considering the value of it. You can imagine the massive loss of the treasure if you try to tickle the dragon. A small sneeze from the dragon that cannot […]
Identifying Sustainability Opportunities in a Supply Chain Part 2
Previously, I outlined the opportunities companies can take to implement sustainability protocols. This submission continues to identify sustainability measures companies can take. When building a roadmap for the supply chain organization, leadership can look at sustainability in two ways: by considering the impact of each operational component in the supply chain separately, or holistically viewing […]
Identifying Sustainability Opportunities in a Supply Chain Part 1
Previously, I highlighted the benefits of sustainability in a business’ supply chain. This installment outlines the opportunities companies can take to implement sustainability protocols. When building a roadmap for the supply chain organization, leadership can look at sustainability in two ways: by considering the impact of each operational component in the supply chain separately, or […]
Sustainability Initiatives in Action: Enhance the Supply Chain
In my last post, I analyzed the benefits of building a case for sustainability. In this post, I highlight the benefits of sustainability in a business. Leftover paint is an issue almost all people have dealt with at one time or another. The EPA estimates that every homeowner in the US has 3-4 gallons of […]