Seven tips for surviving the downturn

Posted by Adam Stone | Nov 24, 2008 |

Right arm still in a cast but I have thinking a lot about the current economy and how it affects our customers. Since I can’t blog about it at the moment I thought this post from the Business of Software blog offered some good advice for all companies, software or otherwise.

http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2008/11/seven-tips-for-surviving-the-downturn.html

About The Author

Adam Stone

Other than my personal life and hobbies I am all about the system integration and A/V industry. I started in 1981 as a “TV delivery specialist” for the Good Guys a west coast CE chain. From there I started my own big dish satellite installation company which morphed into a home theater installation company in the early 90’s. I got out of the installation business in 1996 and went to work for an electrical contractor as project manager of their residential division where I was exposed to the complexities of old school/analog job costing, estimating, blueprints and project scheduling. Being a long time PC geek and creator of some database driven estimating tools I knew that there had to be a better way to deal with these complex projects. During the course of my employment there I was exposed to Visio as an easy to use drawing tool. After spending some time with it I realized that I could hook it up to a database and automate many of the disparate processes I needed to do to accomplish my tasks. That let to the formation of my current company D-Tools which is the leader in the marketplace with thousands of companies using our design, engineering and business management tools. My direct contact information is on the About tab.