Volano Solutions
January 29, 2014
Last week my cousin Laura, a senior software developer in Chicago posted a thought provoking blog on her Facebook page excoriating the oft quoted, chirpy mantra “Do What You Love.” Laura posts interesting content so I read the blog and have been banging it around in my head for the last couple of weeks. Down […]
January 23, 2014
Volano Solutions is proud to welcome Brian Vaughan, another exceptional software developer to our team. Brian brings technical prowess and all of the hard to find intangibles to a group already loaded with talent. We are very fortunate and look forward to his client engagements and the sense of humor and personality he brings to the […]
January 20, 2014
The Model A couple of years ago I got to hear a killer talk by best-selling author and consultant John DiJulius on customer service. John is the founder of a successful, upscale Cleveland-based salon chain and consults with a prestigious group of clients such as Ritz-Carlton, Lexus, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Nestle and Mariott to name a […]
January 14, 2014
This week Google announced the acquisition of Nest for $3.2 billion. Nest is a young but quickly growing tech company founded by Apple veterans Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. Nest creates “smart thermostats and smoke detectors” that learn your behaviors and adjust usage accordingly. Operated in the cloud, Nest smoke detectors can send your phone […]
January 7, 2014
Universal Issues One of the greatest challenges that growing franchise companies face is the disparity in performance between their locations and franchise owners. Often it takes years of franchise sales and development to learn who your ideal owners are, what markets tend do well and what processes enable operational efficiency and communication between corporate and […]
December 31, 2013
Last week I caught a few fascinating minutes of NPR on the way into the office. On my bucket list; at some point in time contribute monies during their fundraising efforts as I am a selfish benefactor of great content and have been riding that gravy train for years… But I digress. Steve Inskeep was […]
December 23, 2013
So we’re coming to another year end at Volano Solutions and I wanted our team to think back on 2013 and their big takeaways for the year. This is the blogging equivalent of a sit-com playing footage of past episodes in absence of creative plot ideas. But Volano has had a strong year and it’s […]
December 4, 2013
Volano Solutions spoke recently at a technology summit in Kearney Nebraska. The event centered around the importance of broadband in rural communities and featured some dynamic thought leaders and organizations. One of the keynote speakers, “Futurist” Jack Uldrich, gave the most entertaining and thought-provoking presentation on key innovations that were already making their way to […]
November 25, 2013
Volano likes to be around the start-up community for a lot of good reasons and Omaha, though not without its challenges, has become an increasingly friendly place for entrepreneurs to pursue their ideas. As a software company, we are particularly interested in how technological innovation can solve problems and make money. Start-ups are often warned […]
November 12, 2013
There is no doubt that social media has fundamentally changed the way communities interact with each other. Few would argue the profound impact, good or bad, that social has had on a global scale; be it the role of social media in Arab Spring to the countless photos of babies, cute and ugly that populate […]
November 4, 2013
We write frequently about the way in which technology alters and enhances the way we do business, communicate and conduct the countless, banal tasks that make up our daily lives. Last week I discovered a conversation between prominent contemporary writers on how technology has altered storytelling on the New York Times. This is a fun […]
October 31, 2013
Recently social media strategist Brent Robinson wrote a blog on the benefits to your brand of addressing on-line customer reviews. His blog states not surprising statistics that 84% of consumers research product on-line prior to making a purchase and 70% of consumers read on-line reviews before they buy a product as well. Clearly consumers have […]