Change Management: Ever a Struggle
Like many of us, I attend a lot of conferences. At one of them I moderate an annual CIO roundtable full of bright folks that get together and share ideas […]
Entries by Jim Thompson
ViewPoints 2015 Event Planning begins!
ViewPoints, Business Impact’s bi-annual customer event, is on track for 2015. The informative event is two and a half days of training, networking, and learning the latest information on what […]
Why Tech-Savvy Suppliers And Distributors Have An Advantage
The technology available in the Beverage Sales market today has created two camps that are both competing for the same sales and customers. Some companies stick to old formulas, often […]
Happy Anniversary Business Impact!
Okay, it feels like I’m a school kid, feeling a little giddy about our 9th birthday of Business Impact. To be honest, I started the company mainly to escape a setting […]
How to “Go Deep” and Steal Market Share
According to the National Restaurant Association and the U.S. Census Bureau, this summer saw Eating and Drinking Place Sales in the U.S. , an indicator of how much consumers are […]
What Happens in GreatVines Stays in GreatVines
“The key to this business is personal relationships” — Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) quoting famous (but fictional) sports agent Dicky Fox We live and work in a relationship-driven business. The […]
What Happens in GreatVines Stays in GreatVines
“The key to this business is personal relationships” — Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) quoting famous (but fictional) sports agent Dicky Fox We live and work in a relationship-driven business. The […]
3 Ways to Simplify Training and Start Executing
The best sales reps in the industry all have their own way of working that they become very comfortable with. But even the best aren’t maximizing their selling opportunities. An […]
How GreatVines made the “Shift” to faster data processing
Redshift is a massively parallel processing (MPP) columnar database system that was recently added to Amazon’s stack of cloud services. It is often brought up in the context of “Big […]
