Through decades of consulting for companies such as Apple, Bose, Roche, IBM, and others, we at TCGen Inc. have seen our share of product development snafus. We tend to see many of the same problems across organizations and across industries. Most of them are simple, all of them avoidable, and yet their effects are significant. Below are five of the most common product development pitfalls we have seen — and how to avoid them.
Back in the mid-90s, just as Netscape Navigator was giving us our first look at what the visual internet could be, web design came in two flavors. There was the ultra basic stuff. Text on a page, maybe a masthead graphic of some sort. Nothing sophisticated. It often looked like traditional letterhead, or a printed newsletter, but now on the screen. Interactions were few, if any, but perhaps a couple links tied a nascent site together. And there was the other extreme.
No matter where your team works, whether remotely or all together in an office, building a culture of accountability is key to hitting your goals and keeping projects on track. Teammates want to know that they can rely on each other to jump in and collaborate on projects, and managers want to know that individual contributors can meet deadlines and expectations without being micromanaged. At the heart of accountability is communication and transparency.
To commence this discourse regarding effective employee communication we shall, before all else, formalize a definition for the term. The above is an example of over-inflated written communication. Big words are used making the sentence unnecessarily complex.
A work order is a documentation of a job or service request that is issued to track and monitor the status of the request which is raised by either a customer or internal stakeholder. Companies that provide field service, or operate in industries that involve regular inspection or maintenance of equipment or machinery deal with work orders frequently.
Now that we’ve reviewed four elements of B2B customer support excellence and the strategic business impact of each in Part 1 of this blog series—profit contribution, brand reputation, efficiency, effectiveness—let’s take a look at goals and action items that will get you there.
Teamwork is delighted to share our latest security update: we’ve successfully completed our ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. Paired with our recent achievement of SOC 2 Type 1, we’re continuing our commitment to deliver a safe experience to our customers.
We’re dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s in preparation to put the Team(s) in Teamwork in the coming weeks. Our latest feature, Teams, will allow you to group users together into teams and sub-teams so you can communicate more efficiently just like you would in real life.
Exciting times in CRM as we move closer to releasing what has been the number one customer request over the past number of months: yes, an email solution is coming! The answer to this is quite simple! The majority of sales interactions and conversations take place over email. Without a dedicated email solution, Teamwork CRM was potentially missing crucial elements of the sales conversation and information was then being split between Teamwork CRM and the sales rep’s email inbox.
One of our favorite things about Mattermost is that it makes it easy for teams to collaborate on projects and topics in specific channels. Today, we’re excited to announce that Mattermost users can now easily carry conversations over to a video conference and screen sharing with Jitsi, a leading open-source video conferencing solution.
