When Spreadsheets Hit The Fan
Technology Podcasts
When Spreadsheets Hit the Fan is a podcast for leaders in fast-growing professional services organizations or teams looking for the latest conversations around Service Delivery best practices. In each episode, we’ll talk about specific challenges faced by service delivery teams and how they were resolved. If the title, “accidental project manager” has ever applied to you, you’ve found the right community. Welcome to When Spreadsheets Hit the Fan.
Location:
United States
Description:
When Spreadsheets Hit the Fan is a podcast for leaders in fast-growing professional services organizations or teams looking for the latest conversations around Service Delivery best practices. In each episode, we’ll talk about specific challenges faced by service delivery teams and how they were resolved. If the title, “accidental project manager” has ever applied to you, you’ve found the right community. Welcome to When Spreadsheets Hit the Fan.
Language:
English
Episodes
The Danger of Trying to Do Everything In-House: Why Businesses Need Experts
12/15/2022
In today’s episode, John talks to Stefanie Curtis, the CEO of Pace Creative, an award-winning women-led marketing agency that builds marketing growth strategies based on data and research for predictable growth for major global companies.
John and Stefanie will discuss: The dangers of always trying to do everything in-house without the use of a qualified expert to guide you; What mistakes executives make when searching for experts to solve their business problems; Why executives make these...
Duration:00:30:07
Ensuring Your Project’s Success: Best Techniques Shared by a PMO Professional
11/28/2022
In today’s episode, John talks to Kathy Carrillo, an Independent PMO Professional, who has been working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry for over 17 years, with roles focused on project management for the last 13 years.
John and Kathy will discuss the following: Best techniques for ensuring that a business initiative is poised for success right from the launch; Understanding the who, what, when, where, why, and how before you get to the solution; Asking the right...
Duration:00:27:56
Designing a Better Hiring Process: Mistakes to Avoid and Steps to Take
10/5/2022
In today’s episode, John talks to Ryan Schram, the President & Board Director at IZEA, about the importance of the hiring process in the modern era of remote and hybrid work and the biggest hiring mistakes every organization should avoid.
John and Ryan will discuss: How to avoid major hiring mistakes when selecting job candidates to interview; The importance of understanding which soft skills are relevant to your business when hiring a new employee; The negative impact on the organization...
Duration:00:34:34
Project Manager 101: Why You Should Let Your PMs Lead with Their Superpowers
9/7/2022
In today’s episode, John speaks with Rebecca Seago-Coyle, the Director of Project Management at ConcertAI, about the danger of working with an accidental project manager and the business value of the project management office.
John and Rebecca will talk about: The responsibilities and importance of a project manager in every business; The biggest mistakes every organization makes in terms of project management; What methodologies can be applied to fix these mistakes.
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Duration:00:24:52
Digital Transformation: How to Make It Work
8/24/2022
In today’s episode, John speaks with Shawn Freeman, the Vice President at Fully Managed, former TWT Group, about digital transformation and mistakes organizations make when digitizing their business.
John and Shawn will talk about: How to make digital transformation work for your business; Common digital transformation mistakes and misconceptions; Why disruption is ok for your business; How technology simplifies any business development.
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Duration:00:17:56
Moving Past Band-Aid Solutions: The Importance of Scaling Processes
8/9/2022
In today’s episode, John speaks with Kai Fahrion, Co-CEO at Zeno.
Today’s topics are: Proactive process improvements over band-aid solutions; The pitfalls of a reactive micromanagement-based process; Why KPI’s matter when measuring process improvements.
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Duration:00:23:52
How do we Ask The Right Questions to Change the Status Quo?
7/27/2022
In today’s episode, John speaks with COO at Galatea Technologies, Cara Haberstock, about getting out of your company’s comfort zones, recognizing when the status quo you’re currently stuck in is in need of a change and how to ask the right questions to make the necessary changes to your work routine.
John and Cara talk about: Identifying the status quo and getting away from it; Asking the right questions, to the right people on how the status quo should change; How we can change our own...
Duration:00:18:43
Why are 75% of PMOs Disbanded within Three Years?
7/13/2022
In today’s episode, John speaks with Randy Hall of Logically. Logically is a national managed IT Service Provider with the goal of making IT Management easy and secure for hundreds of corporations, healthcare organizations, Not-For-Profits and Public Sector Agencies. Randy’s the Director of Project Management where he helps build project focused, customer centric departments.
John and Randy talk about: Building A World Class PMO; The Biggest Mistake People Make When They Initially Establish...
Duration:00:29:22
Why Companies must Continue to Update their Value Proposition and What Can Happen When they Don’t
6/29/2022
In today’s episode, John speaks with Edmund Hugo Lunde. Edmund is the Co-Founder and COO of Arion Blue – a privately held engineering company based in Huston, Texas.
In this episode: Why do many companies fail to keep their value propositions current and relevant; Examples of Companies that fail to do this; How Steve Jobs is an example of a leader who was a master of keeping the value proposition current even in the midst of adversity.
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Duration:00:32:11
Business as an Ecosystem: Thinking Beyond Buyers and Sellers
6/8/2022
As business becomes more of an ecosystem, we must look past traditional roles of “buyers and sellers.” What strategies can we use to build better business relationships?
In this episode, John speaks with Zach McGrath of LCG Advisors about the power of partnership based strategies that can be used by a variety of Professional Service Organizations.
Join us as we discuss: The one big mistake professional service organizations make; What’s the negative impact of bringing on a stingy customer;...
Duration:00:23:09
Digging Out the Data: A Case for Measurement as a Core Company Value
5/25/2022
In a business culture that demands speed and urgency, is a case to be made for using data to make the right decisions? In this episode, we speak with Sean Collier, Chief Operating Officer at Etna Interactive. Join us as we discuss: - The Importance of Data Based Decision Making - The Shortcomings of Product Based Organizations: Is there really a market for what you’re selling? - Finding the balance between speed vs data driven decisions - The Case for Measurement as a Core Company Value To...
Duration:00:28:20
Introducing... When Spreadsheets Hit the Fan
3/23/2022
Welcome to When Spreadsheets Hit the Fan, a Birdview podcast. This is a show for leaders in fast-growing professional services organizations looking for the latest conversations around Service Delivery best practices.
At Birdview PSA, we aim to increase our customer’s profitability by automating and optimizing the entire service delivery cycle. We’ve created this show to provide helpful, actionable and approachable solutions to specific challenges faced by service delivery teams through...
Duration:00:01:14