The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Transformation Economy by THRESHOLD

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference.IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business practices that will elevate your knowledge to the next level.

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference.IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business practices that will elevate your knowledge to the next level.

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference.IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business practices that will elevate your knowledge to the next level.

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference. IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business practices that will elevate your knowledge to the next level.

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference. IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business practices that will elevate your knowledge to the next level.

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference. IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business practices that will elevate your knowledge to the next level.

Live Broadcast at the The IPBC IGNITE Conference. IPBC IGNITE is the Business Advisor education event of the year! You will have access to experts and thought leaders in key areas of professional business practices that will ignite your business, your employees, and your life! Our conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, network and educate yourself in the most critical aspects of your professional practice. You will learn crucial insights in tax, software, technology and best business practices that will elevate your knowledge to the next level.

In the sixteenth century, a new word appeared in English dictionaries: pantometry, which means universal measurement. Ever since, humans have been obsessed with counting things, from people to the amount of cars imported and the number of McDonald’s hamburgers served. The problem for the pantometrists is the same one facing businesspeople today: what should be measured? Facts and figures do not provide a context, or reveal truth: we still need our imaginations and creativity. If everything important has to be quantified to be comprehended, how are we to understand art, music, poetry, literature, indeed, our own human feelings? Statistics can certainly pronounce a fact, but they cannot explain it without an underlying context, or theory. Numbers have an unfortunate tendency to supersede other types of knowing. Ed and Ron will explore the critical difference between a Key Performance Indicator and a Key Predictive Indicator and their impact on customer service and competitive advantage.

Hourly billing and timesheets are inextricably linked: you cannot discuss one without the other. The reason is because both use a common measuring device: Time. There are four primary defenses of timesheets: 1. They are a pricing tool: 2. They are a cost accounting tool: 3. They are a project management tool: and 4. They measure the productivity of our professionals. Logic teaches us that if time is the incorrect measure of external value, then timesheets are the wrong measuring device for internal knowledge workers, similar to plunging a ruler into the oven to determine its temperature. After all, he who says A must also say B. Join Ed and Ron as they falsify all of these defenses.

What qualifies as a 'profession'? What does it mean to be a “professional.” The term profession comes from the Latin noun professio, which is derived from the past participle professus, or the verb profiteri, denoting “to declare publicly, own freely, acknowledge, avow.” Professionals are said to “profess” something, they stand for something. The noun professional didn’t appear in American dictionaries until 1861. In the 18th and 19th centuries 'professions' referred to theology, law, medicine, and education. From the early 17th till the mid-18th century, theology was considered the preeminent profession. It’s interesting to note that a trip to the doctor didn’t do much good until the 1920s or 1930s with the introduction of antibiotics. Before then, most visits were ineffective and a large number were downright harmful. The Hippocratic principle of primum non nocere -'first, do no harm'- continues to be an essential guideline for all professional conduct.