Management

Managing by the Numbers To Improve Profitability

Why trend reports are your friend.  by Rudy Boyance In my work at Lift Business Advisors, I have found that most companies fail to understand and present their data well....

It’s Lonely at the Top

Coaching vs. mentoring and their importance to lift business owners and leaders The vast majority of lift business owners and managers we encounter have “come off the tools,” usually from...

What Your Customers Need

Are you asking yourself and your customers the right questions to survive and thrive in sales?    came across two fantastically staggering statistics recently:  Most buyers are now 80% of...

Leveraging Sales, Ratcheting Up

Your author looks at the different ways to drive sales revenue. You can drive sales revenues any number of different ways, but what is right for you and how do...

Brexit and the CE-/UKCA-Marking Transition

Clarity finally arrives for lift companies. It was five years ago when the U.K. voted on Brexit, and the very next article I wrote after the vote posed the question,...

Using the Ansoff Matrix to Drive Company Growth

What is the Ansoff Matrix? The Ansoff Matrix is a 2 x 2 matrix with its roots in a paper written by Igor Ansoff in 1957, but it is still...

Mergers and Acquisitions Demystified

PAPL and AIQ India director details one of the industry’s current transformations. India’s vertical-transportation (VT) industry is undergoing a transformation from a protected environment to one of open trade and...

The Formula for Change

Have you ever thought about the ingredients necessary to make a sustainable organisational change? And if you did, what would those components of change be? Fortunately, this thinking has already...

Protecting Your Elevator Business

As a business owner, you spend years building your business so it can flourish. You put a large amount of time, effort and money into this. As you make these...

eMarketing

Effectively marketing your company in the electronic world is more important than ever. The author of this article is responsible for The Peelle Co.’s North American business, which includes its...

The 125th Street and Broadway MTA station; photo by General Punger for Wikipedia

Inaccessibility at Key NYC Subway Station Focus of Meeting

Mills Park Tower; image courtesy of apartments.com

Elevator Modernization Underway at Chicagoland OPHA Tower

The event is planned at SPEEDERS in Richmond, B.C.; image courtesy of SPEEDERS.

CECA Western Region Meeting and Networking Event Planned

The event provides lift professionals with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Shorts’ advanced Langer & Laumann Door Operator; image courtesy of Langer & Laumann.

Shorts Again Offers Roadshow For Lift Professionals

ALABAMA TOWN CONSIDERING FINES FOR FAULTY ELEVATORS

Alabama Town Considering Fines For Faulty Elevators