As I am starting a new SAP Business One implementation, I am reminded (and am coaching the project team) of the importance of setting S.M.A.R.T. goals. When faced with something as potentially daunting as implementing a new ERP system, it is easy to set lofty, generic goals that are impossible…

Wow – big news from SAP (here’s the link with details)!  SAP Cloud Business Soars; Operating Profit Up Double-Digit; Raises 2018 Outlook and 2020 Ambition Nothing like growth – and double-digit growth at that!  There is a reason for SAP’s huge success:  a fabulous product!  If you have inventory, or make and…

My wife works at a health and wellness company – specifically in fitness and weight loss.  Many of their customers are quite heavy and need to drop substantial weight.  This extra burden on their bodies typically has serious joint issues along with the health risks:  knees most often.  Bad knees…

ACUMEN Vice President of Operations Mark Ownby recently returned from the annual SAP Innovation Summit held at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando April 18-20. ACUMEN is always represented at these events since so much information on product design and direction is provided during a very compact schedule. This year…

Congratulations are in order for ACUMEN Corporation CEO, Phil Perkins.  Phil has just co-authored and published his fourth business success book, The Willing To Buy Coach.  Phil and co-author, Dan Schultheis wrote The Willing To Buy Coach as a follow up to their earlier collaboration on Willing To Buy: A Questioning…

In my first book “Points of Productivity; Turning Corporate Pain to Gain” I discussed the concept of a high availability order processing station as designed by a CEO at a large electrical distributor. Basically the idea was to allow distributors of certain products to share information and inventory by connecting…

Last week I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Morris Hartley, President of H&H Products in Orlando, Florida and his CFO Clayton Morris. We had several things to discuss but the subject quickly turned to what their team calls “Our Promise”. I was so impressed by the verbiage originally…

ACUMEN Corporation is proud to sponsor this year’s Richmond Times-Dispatch Bracket Challenge.  If you haven’t created your second chance Sweet 16 bracket (and we all need a second chance) – you have time! http://richmond.collegehoops.upickem.net May we ask you 3 questions? Does your company ever have trouble shipping orders on time?…

Several years ago my partner Sandra Dube and I were the subject of a cover article in Enterprise Virginia magazine. On the cover she and I were pictured inside the sweltering Virginia House Museum holding actual medieval battle swords. It was agony, but that’s a different story for another day….