The IO Blog

While I ran my own A/V company, I was always thinking about what I could do to make my business run more efficiently and smoothly. Of course, I thought a lot about inventory control and how to best keep track of it and maintain appropriate levels. Since I did extensive research and spoke with other business owners, I wanted to share some of the important questions to ask about inventory systems. These are some of the important inventory control questions that I regularly aske

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon isn’t the only company that is using data on employees to improve productivity. A New York Times article over the weekend portrayed Amazon’s work culture as “bruising” and “Darwinian” in part because of the way it uses data to manage its staff. The article depicted a work culture where staffers are under constant pressure to deliver strong results on a wide variety of detailed metrics the company monitors in real time — such as what gets abandoned in pe

Do You Need AV Inventory Management Software? Any AV business, or any small business that has inventory, should carefully consider its value, how it is managed, and what impact it has on their bottom line. This requires strict monitoring and control of what comes in and goes out on a weekly or even a daily basis. In addition, it requires solid process management, software and accountability. However, this is often much easier said than done, especially now, when businesses ar

Many small businesses try to run their organizations via email, text, or (worse) paper notes, leaving them open to failure, not to mention, project disasters. Success is in the details, and most often it’s the small details that make the biggest difference. For any given project, there are so many pieces to coordinate that it takes time, effort, and the right management solution to tie them all together. Businesses, small or big, need to begin relying on technology to streaml