New Slack feature gives you even more ways to share your data
May 10, 2016Valerie Hamilton - What is Slack?In case you aren’t as familiar as we are (we use Slack to communicate internally - and it’s amazing!), Slack brings all of your communications together in...
View ArticleGet your office moving with a fitness dashboard
May 16, 2016Chris Wolski - Spring has come to Ottawa and it's an especially happy time for all of the runners and cyclists in the office. A lot of us walk or cycle to and from work, and we have a...
View ArticleDo initiatives to get more women into tech really work?
May 13, 2016Allan Wille - Meggan King is manager of support services at Klipfolio. Though she’s worked in tech for 17 years, she’s always been the only female in her office until she came to work for...
View ArticleHealth and Fitness Hacks for Your Workday
May 18, 2016Danielle PoleskiProductivity vs. Activity: It shouldn’t be a compromiseAre you concerned about what sitting all day at the office is doing to your body and health? I love my midday workouts...
View ArticleThe transparency revolution
May 19, 2016Steffen Hedebrandt, Head of Marketing, AirtameYour customers. Your employees. Your board members. Friends. Family. All of them are more enlightened than ever before. With a few clicks, they...
View ArticleBack to basics: The fundamental metrics for a software-as-a-service (SaaS)...
May 20, 2016Allan Wille - I sometimes hear people debate the meaning of basic concepts like monthly recurring revenue, churn rate or conversion rate.As far as I am concerned, there is no debate...
View ArticleWe tried out Airtame for our own wallboards - here are the results
May 24, 2016Nikta Kanuka - We had a chance to test out the Airtame in our own offices. Our marketing team used the Airtame on our wallboard to stream our Marketing Performance Dashboard. But before we...
View ArticleBuild a knowledge-sharing culture with Lightning talks in six easy steps
May 25, 2016Ali Pourshahid - Build a knowledge-sharing culture with Lightning talks in six easy steps It’s Friday and we are all looking forward to another Lightning talk. Mark, our CTO, and one of the...
View ArticleThe three pillars of customer success – and what we’re doing to ensure it
May 27, 2016Allan Wille - When customers sign up to use Klipfolio, they do so with every intention of being able to do so successfully.But not every customer is successful.And although this is close to...
View ArticleGet results by communicating with speed, efficiency and effectiveness
June 3, 2016Allan Wille - Consider the following situation:We bring out a new feature, and the next day our help desk gets a panicky email from a customer who’s having a problem with it and doesn’t...
View ArticleHow non-work time makes for better time at work
June 10, 2016Allan Wille - I’ve never believed I should spend all my waking hours at the office. Even though I love what I do, and even though I am very passionate about my work, it’s really important...
View ArticleCase Study: LiveData Enables Custom Dashboards on Mobile Devices
June 7, 2016Valerie Hamilton - Case Study: LiveData Enables Custom Dashboards on Mobile DevicesHere’s an excerpt of the study to get you startedCompany Background: LiveData builds affordable, realtime,...
View ArticleCase Study: Iotum Gets the Pulse of the Business with Klipfolio
June 14, 2016Valerie Hamilton - Case Study: Iotum Gets the Pulse of the Business with KlipfolioHere’s an excerpt of the study to get you startedCompany Background: Iotum, with offices in Toronto and...
View ArticleFive lessons from the SuiteWorld16 conference
June 16, 2016Patrick BegleyOur mission was simple: We were to investigate the potential for Klipfolio of NetSuite, a cloud-based suite of software services used to manage a business’s operations and...
View ArticleHow to prepare a killer package for your board
June 17, 2016Allan Wille - I meet with our board of directors four times a year, at the end of each quarter.It’s customary to prepare a package of information for board members in advance of each...
View ArticleWhy entrepreneurs need to persevere
June 24, 2016Allan Wille - On October 10, 1492, Christopher Columbus was taken to task by angry crew members. They’d been sailing for five weeks and were frustrated and frightened. They demanded to...
View ArticleHow to survey your employees – and why it’s so important
June 30, 2016Allan Wille - Earlier this year, we lost two employees. It was a first for us and it got me thinking: Was there a problem somewhere? Were our employees secretly unhappy?I needed to find...
View ArticleHow do dashboards help agile software development teams?
July 5, 2016Ali Pourshahid - A few weeks ago I came across this great blog post on building an agile sprint planning system by Karl Hughes. Karl is the head of engineering at Packback and has spent the...
View ArticleWhy you need to own your mistakes
July 8, 2016Allan Wille - No one likes it when something goes wrong. But take it as a fact: It’s inevitable, and at some point, something will. A server will fail, someone will press the wrong button,...
View ArticleFour tips for writing an executive summary that will actually get read
July 15, 2016Allan Wille - As our business becomes more complex, I have less and less time to read the reports, long- winded emails and other written materials that regularly come across my...
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