This all-star group of manufacturing experts share their favorite Office 365 systems and how it helps them collaborate, communicate and organize all of the business (and personal!) information. Daisys Matthews from Probi – Shares Planner and To-Do tips on what to use when AND how. Jason Scow from Probi – Describes how MS 365 has…
Strong leaders have specific skills and traits that make them great at what they do. They have the ability to manage, encourage and empower. They need to be transparent, show empathy and express gratitude. Defining purpose and vision is critical and they have to be someone that people can trust. On top of all these…
Andrea Brito Amador is a Digital Marketing maven. In this video she rolls up her sleeves and shows us what is behind this complimentary offering by Google that is perhaps the most important next step after launching a website. It goes beyond marketing…it is a tool that Google inherently uses to drive not just traffic…
Last fall my friend Seth Leinbach at In-Position Technologies casually mentioned that he sells a 6 axis collaborative robot (like this) that can do just about anything that a human hand/arm can do. My question, of course, was “Can it pour a beer?” He replied in the affirmative so I set up an event with…
The upshot is that we have worked with 88 companies in 20 years as an outsourced IT Department. We know where to find inefficiencies and as a part-time resource can be used as much or as little as possible. Providing Project Management for Technical Projects like ERP or Microsoft 365 Adoption Setting Up Microsoft Customer…
TCO is a technology acronym that stands for Total Cost of Ownership, which ideally should be low. It is a very interesting phrase that is quite difficult to interpret. This is because of how much goes into a TCO calculation. So let’s say you are evaluating two different laptops: Laptop 1 Type:Lenovo ThinkPad T14…
I’ve known Andrea for many years in a professional setting and love her demeanor, passion, enthusiasm and experience. Andrea is amazing at marketing. One of her niches is in the Digital Marketing space. In this video she gets super specific on many of the things manufacturing companies need to be doing to increase visibility and…
At Allen CIO our initial offering is to help manufacturing companies embrace a new technical philosophy we call “The Manufacturing Pivot.” This Pivot relates to the change that the front office needs to take in order to be competitive and lean on the technology side. Without it, manufacturers will struggle and stumble with adopting critical…
Get excited! Allen CIO is launching a new business that is focused on providing CMMC guidance to manufacturing companies that want to work for the DoD. The website is getting final touches, the expo booth arrives on 9/30, our first expo is COMP2025 in the Springs, and we have built a wonderful team that includes…
Erik Host-Steen is a leader in the sales and marketing world and has a specialization with manufacturing companies. This video specific best practices on how to apply Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principals toward the front office sales and marketing roles. Erik can be contacted at [email protected].