Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

Part IV in our seemingly never ending series...  This week some ideas on what makes your company different , is it a software toolset? who knows - read on to keep growing your business.  Hat tip to  Compliance Expert Health Wruble for the excellent content. Happy Friday..  Thinking Strawberries in the 21st Century -Heath Wruble As a C-level consultant and business owner, I was recently reminded of a public speaking course I took back in graduate school. One of our professors, Michael LLorenz was tasked with getting us prepared to make solid presentations in the real world. His public speaking course was essential for his students and one of the most important and practical courses we have taken. His wisdom helps his students to this day forge ahead in the business world and most of his students still keep in touch with him, which shows the impact he has had and still has on his students. Professor LLorenz would assign each of us a famous speech, have us read the spee...

Part III in our seemingly never ending series...  This week we learn that sometimes thinking on our feet is the way to growing your business.  Hat tip to  Compliance Expert Health Wruble for the excellent content. Happy Friday..  Improv and Business - why leaders and influencers should take improv! -Heath Wruble While living in Austin, I stumbled across and attended an improv show called “Second Sundays” featuring the Improv troupe The Known Wizards, at the Zach Theater. I went back several times, and it was always a great night. In fact, I hadn’t smiled or laughed that much in a very long time. At the end of each performance, the troupe advertised their improv classes. Eventually, I decided to enroll in the improv classes. Why not? What else was I going to do on a Thursday night? Three weeks into the Improv 101 class it dawned upon me that I should have been taking these classes all along, and eventually I came to the conclusion these classes should be taught in col...

Since Heath was kind enough to keep sharing , This week he reminds us that sometime social media can be hazardous to your business health, This is especially  true around business and taking a political, religious or other stance today.  Read on for some Insight..  Hat tip to  Compliance Expert Health Wruble for the excellent content. Happy Friday..  Social Media Pitfalls! Heath Wruble  As a hiring manager, I see so many mistakes people make when interacting on Social Media, that I sometimes want to cry. I am concerned that we tend to take our social media posts with a grain of salt and do not really understand the long-term effect our posts and comments may have. Although I believe social media is a great way to communicate with others and can be a fantastic channel to advertise ourselves or our businesses, it’s also important to remember the societal and career perils inherent to social media. I recently received a resume in response to a job I had posted...

In keeping with our theme of marketing help, I wanted to share some interesting insights on the world of cybersecurity and how it may likely affect you.  Hat tip to Compliance Expert Health Wruble for the excellent content. Happy Friday..    Cybersecurity Is On My Mind – Is It On Yours? Heath Wruble -February 2020 I tend to take Cybersecurity to the extreme. In fact, it is a primary focus of my job, which is to protect the privacy and confidentiality of our clients. To say their privacy is a matter of concern is an understatement – we see our clients as more than clients; they are family and we strive to protect our family at all cost. If we fail at protecting our clients, confidence erodes, relationships are lost, and friendships are broken. Not a month goes by that there isn’t an article in the Wall Street Journal about a data exposure or data breach. Each and every story is devoured and dissected by the firm to identify what those companies have done, what may have cau...

Everyone Needs a Little Marketing Help now and Again.  https://blog.rocketsoftware.com/multivalue/2021/02/the-systems-house-inc-launched-two-new-mv-based-mobile-apps-in-2020/  The Rocket MultiValue partner channel is full of innovative companies providing world-class applications and here’s another great story about a partner quickly developing and deploying new apps to meet the needs of their customers. Since 1979,  The Systems House, Inc. (TSH)  has focused in the distribution industry where they have a large base of installed clients. Today they are the largest company dedicated solely to the needs of the medical distribution industry. Their low overhead and highly technical staff allow TSH to be more agile than other companies when responding to software changes. With a laser focus in healthcare, TSH minimizes the changes required to stay at the forefront of medical distribution software providers. As a result, the organization is thriving and growing in their ma...