3 Traits of the World’s Most Inventive Minds

Leonardo Da Vinci. Marie Curie. Thomas Edison. Margaret Knight. Buckminster Fuller. These and other famous inventors didn’t fall from the sky as full-fledged geniuses. Their paths to success were paved with setbacks and failures, begging the question, what was their secret to persevering?

This question has intrigued many researchers, and today there is no shortage of scientific study into the “DNA” of achieving creative success. Though our understanding of the creative process and what fuels it continues to refine, we do know that the most inventive minds in any field consistently exhibit the following three traits.

1. An attitude of insatiable curiosity and wonder.

To paraphrase Socrates, “All knowledge begins in wonder.” Behind every discovery, invention, or breakthrough is a question: a curiosity about how something works, what might be possible, or a fascination that leads to a new way of seeing. Without curiosity and wonder — without asking the right kind of question for the subject we are seeking to understand or the problem we are trying to solve — we are incapable of coming to a sound, innovative answer. Albert Einstein understood this truth well:

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”

• Albert Einstein

Even though only a quarter of Leonardo DaVinci’s famous notebooks still survive, they are a source of incredible insight into what fueled his genius. He committed many things to his notebooks: personal reflections, accounts of conversations with friends, analysis of political events, and so forth. But more than anything else, DaVinci asked questions and expressed wonder. In his own words:

“I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plants and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engage my thought throughout my life.”

2. A penchant for journaling

DaVinci wasn’t the only genius who journaled. Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk have all relied on the habit of journaling to jumpstart idea-generation, ignite problem-solving, expand imaginative vision, and enhance cognitive agility. Through the new sciences of mind and the field of embodied cognition, we now understand that journaling facilitates a “listening conversation” between the rational, problem-solving aspects of the mind and the more imaginative, vision-generating dimensions.

Judy Willis MD, a neurologist, and former classroom teacher explains, “The practice of journaling can enhance our intake, processing, retaining, and retrieving of information… it promotes our attentive focus … boosts long-term memory, illuminates patterns, gives us time for reflection, and when well-guided, is a source of conceptual development and stimulus of our highest cognition.”

3. A commitment to the creative process that transcends success or failure.

In The War of Art, Steven Pressfield identifies a fear that arises for all genuinely inventive people, which he terms Resistance. What Pressfield means by Resistance is the force in inventive people’s lives that works against them fulfilling their potential.

Pressfield makes a distinction between inventive people who are “amateurs” and those who are “professionals.” By Pressfield’s definition, the distinction is not one of career position but of the attitude of an inventor to their work:

“The amateur over-identifies with his avocation, his aspiration. He defines himself by it. He is an inventor, a CEO, a musician, a scientist, a playwright. Resistance loves this. Resistance knows, for example, that the amateur inventor will never design and actually deliver on his invention because he is overly invested in its success and over-terrified of its failure. The amateur takes it so seriously it paralyzes him.”

The professional, on the other hand, does not locate their sense of self and personal worth in any particular success or failure but rather in their ongoing, self-chosen commitment to the creative process itself, come what may:

Resistance wants us to stake our self-worth, our identity, our reason-for-being, on the response of others to our work. Resistance knows we can’t take this. No one can. The professional blows critics off. He doesn’t even hear them. Critics, he reminds himself, are the unwitting mouthpieces of Resistance.

Inventive people know firsthand that the path from conception to production to market is rarely smooth and requires both know-how and perseverance. If you’re an inventor who’s trying to bring a product to market or looking for a manufacturer, we can help. At Pivot, we’re a single-source design, development, and manufacturing firm that works collaboratively with you and your business to see your product into a profitable future. Interested in learning more? Reach out to us today and talk to a member of our design team for free.

5 Successful Holiday Products and What You Can Learn from Them

At any stage of the product development process, you may find yourself wondering if your product will stand the test of time. Of course you want it to be a high-demand product that consumers will purchase over and over again. Here are some of the most successful holiday products and what you can learn from them so you can try and emulate their success.

The Rubik’s Cube

The Rubik’s Cube is right up there with some of the best-selling toys of all time. It was originally launched in 1980 and is still going strong today. The Rubik’s Cube is so popular because it’s a puzzle that’s not easily solved so it can provide hours of entertainment and can be done almost anywhere. While the puzzle is not easy to solve, its form is simplistic and artistic which appeals to many people.

The iPad

Dubbed one of the best-selling consumer products of all time, the iPad was introduced in 2010 and has since been released in multiple versions like the iPad Air and the iPad Mini. The iPad filled an unmet need in the IT industry. Consumers were wanting a device that was faster than a laptop for checking email, using social media, viewing movies, and reading books but had a larger screen for easier viewing than the iPhone.

Kindle Fire

The Kindle Fire was launched in 2011. The Kindle Fire met another consumer need – affordability. It’s perfect for consumers that want a device for reading books but don’t want to pay the price tag of the iPad. It has a great design, is easy to travel with, and has plenty of storage.

Koosh Ball

Another toy with staying power is the Koosh ball. It was first introduced in 1987. The Koosh ball was a result of engineer Scott Stillinger’s desire to create a safe and practical toy to play catch with his children. OddzOn, the company founded by Stillinger, then created their whole brand around the Koosh, creating many variations in different sizes and colors.

Transformers

The wildly popular Transformer toys were first launched in 1984. Much like the Rubik’s Cube, they are more than just a toy. They offer a challenge to children (and some parents). Transforming the toy requires some skill and practice. Transformers encourage creativity and versatility because children play with the toy in robot mode or vehicle mode.

Lessons learned from these successful holiday products include knowing your target market, solving a problem, providing value, and offering entertainment and fun. If you’re planning to launch a product during the holiday season, be sure and do your research ahead of time. You’ll also want to spend some time and effort on your holiday marketing campaign because you’ll be competing for consumers’ attention during one of the busy shopping times of the year.

At Pivot International we offer business development services like strategic planning, market analysis, advertising and marketing plans, and external sales consulting to ensure your product is successful regardless of when you launch it. Contact us today to learn more about our business development services.

Dealing with Increased Orders During the Holidays

Increased orders during the holidays are a great thing for your business. It means your product is in demand and you’re making sales. You’ll want to make sure you’re prepared to handle the increased demand that the holiday season brings, though. To make sure holiday orders get where they need to be, when they need to be there, and in the condition promised, plan ahead, review your supply chain management, and get extra help.

Plan Ahead

There are a few ways you can plan ahead in order to help deal with increased orders during the holidays. Demand planning is a core supply chain trend that involves creating a realistic forecast for sales of products, including any new products that are launching. Once you have an idea of the demand for your product, you can estimate order levels and hire additional staff to meet increased product demands.

When planning supply chain logistics, you might want to consider setting earlier shipping deadlines. Making promises that products will arrive before the holidays can become stressful if adequate shipping deadlines haven’t been set. Consider where the majority of your products will be shipping from and to and plan accordingly.

Review Your Supply Chain

Management of your supply chain involves everything from sourcing the materials that go into your products all the way to getting your products delivered to your customer. You need supply chain management for your product to ensure every step is coordinated in the most efficient way possible. Review your supply chain to make sure each part of it is prepared to handle increased orders. If you discover, for example, that sourcing the materials needed to manufacture your product is going to be a problem, you can find a way around this before having to deal with increased orders during the holidays.

Get Extra Help

Hiring additional staff during the holidays is one way to ease the burden of increased orders. Order fulfillment and outsourcing are two others. An order fulfillment company can take over the order taking, packing, and shipping. Many companies also handle package tracking questions from customers. Most order fulfillment companies will begin working with you months in advance to devise a plan for tackling holiday orders.

Outsourcing is another option. If you’d rather not hire extra staff during the holiday season you can outsource certain jobs to a temp agency. Where outsourcing is particularly useful though, is when it comes to supply chain management. By outsourcing your supply chain management, you will free up time previously spent on coordinating manufacturing, distribution, and shipping. At Pivot International, our supply chain management services use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) software to optimize all the steps in your supply chain.

At Pivot we manage every aspect of transporting materials and finished goods to their final destination. We are dedicated to providing our clients with full service support in product manufacturing and distribution and believe that our job continues even after your completed product is delivered. To learn more about how we can help with increased orders during the holidays or any other time of the year, contact us today.

Biometric Security: Solutions for a Digital World

Biometrics, a term derived from the Greek words bio, meaning life, and metron, meaning measurement, refers to the science and technology of digitally measuring and mapping individual biological features in order to identify and authenticate a person’s identity for security-related or forensic purposes.

With fingerprinting being one of the oldest forms of biometrics, biometrics is not a recent advance, though the technological innovations and applications involved in it have taken identity authentication to levels that only a generation ago were the stuff of sci-fi.

With the rise of e-commerce and the exponential increase of transactions occurring through online channels, along with increasingly sophisticated data hacking, the global biometrics market is rapidly expanding in response to the need for more secure, less easily compromised (faked) forms of identity authentication.

Conventional authentication methods – passwords, PINs, keys and tokens – are relatively easy for experienced data hackers to discover in order to breach even the most fortified of firewalls of the biggest businesses: In recent years, the credit cards of over 40 million Target customers were compromised, and in 2017 Wells Fargo was subject to a data breach in which 50,000 client reports were leaked. By contrast, biometric data is extremely difficult to falsify.

With both businesses and governmental agencies on the hunt for unique authentication credentials, the global biometric technologies market, says Market Wired, will reach $41.5 billion by 2020, from a total of $14.9 billion in 2015. This constitutes a five-year compound annual growth rate of 22.7 percent.

Biometric technologies for identity authentication currently include:

• Chemical: DNA analysis and scent signature
• Visual: ear, iris, retinal, face, fingerprint, and hand geometry
• Behavioral: gait, voice, and handwriting

Biometric ear identification shows particular promise because, unlike the face, this feature changes little over a lifetime. In addition to its potential to make e-commerce more secure for consumers, ear recognition can also be used forensically. The FBI has built a massive bio-recognition database, as has the Department of Homeland Security, and in 2015 the Los Angeles police department sank millions of dollars into biometric technology to expand its identification capabilities.

With these advances in biosecurity technologies comes the potential for overreach. In other words, the barriers to widespread adoption are not technological or even economic, but rather socio-cultural and legal. With the recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the constitutionality of obtaining legal consent for collecting biometric data has been called into question, with concerns about the preservation of both information privacy and physical privacy.

Advances in biometrics appear to constitute the security model of the future, with its potential as a force for good limited only by the ethos of the human agencies entrusted with crafting the legislation to ensure that these powerful technologies are adopted and implemented for legitimate ends through the legal consent of consumers and citizens alike.

At Pivot, we’re experts in clearing the path and priming the channels for your product’s market success. Contact us today and see what we can do for you.

Trends in Biometric Security

Biometrics is the use of a physical aspect of a person to verify their identity. Biometrics can be used to secure personal information. The most commonly used physical biometrics are fingerprint and iris scanners, however, there are a number of ways these technologies are finding new uses such as mobile payment, point of sale, e-government processes, immigration services and even incorporating them into the internet of things.

Mobile Payment

It’s projected that two years from now, up to $1 trillion financial transactions will be conducted via mobile phones. With the portability, as well as the ease with which a cell phone can go missing, security is a huge concern. Biometric processes will be built right into cell phones making it difficult for anyone but the owner to operate it. The use of fingerprint technologies to verify mobile phone payments will become critical.

Point of Sale

Manufacturers have been experimenting with combining biometric technology and point of sale technology. This will eliminate the need for PINs or barcodes, thereby improving the shopping experience for customers. This technology can also be linked to mobile banking, eliminating the need to carry cash. The mobile phone might soon replace the wallet.

Multi-Stage Authentication

In order to improve security, multiple layers of authentication are required. A password or PIN alone is no longer good enough. Managers in the corporate world are looking at ways to improve security that include combining passwords with fingerprint scanning.

Immigration Services

Fingerprinting has always been considered one of the most reliable forms of identification used by law enforcement. Immigration services will use fingerprint scanning in order to verify identities of not only their employees, but also the people they serve.

eGovernment Processes

Government services always seem to be a popular target for fraudsters. Information security and user authentication continues to be a high priority for the government. Fingerprint recognition as well as face, eye, and voice biometrics are the most widely used biometrics in the government sector today and this trend will continue in 2018 and beyond.

The Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is changing design with the abundance of interconnectivity that is available today. With increased interconnectivity comes increased risk of security breaches. If one device is accessed and it is connected to many others, a security breach is no longer a breach of just on device. Biometrics are being used to ensure the IoT is as secure as possible.

With security being a concern for many businesses and citizens, it’s comforting to know we can maintain and tighten security with the incorporation of biometrics. Whether it’s securing the Internet of Things, ensuring services are provided to the right people, or making things more convenient for consumers, biometric security has a role to play in many industries.

Pivot International is a product design, development, and manufacturing firm with strengths in software development, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and industrial design. To learn more about how we can help you engineer a new product, update an existing product, or in obtain biometric security for your business, contact us today.

Consumer and Industrial Touchscreen Technology

Touchscreen applications — found on a tablet device, at the supermarket checkout, ATM, airport, or manufacturing facility — are now such a ubiquitious feature of everyday life that it’s easy to fail to appreciate the technological innovations that made these applications possible in the first place.

Consumer and industrial touchscreen technology falls into two broad categories — resistive and capacitive — both of which are commonly encountered by people in their everyday lives and which have revolutionized the ways that humans interact with machines.

Resistive Touchscreens

Resistive touchscreens, so-called because their function relies on resistance, or direct pressure to the screen, are the most common form of industrial touchscreen technology.

Resistive touchscreens are composed of two thin sheets of glass or specialized film with a space between them. The sheets of glass or specialized film that face each other are coated with indium tin oxide (ITO), a clear conductive material. When pressure is applied to the screen, these conductive surfaces come into contact with each other, resulting in a cascade of signals.

Because resistive touchscreens operate on the principle of pressure, they are equally responsive to a gloved finger, a stylus, a pencil eraser, or anything that applies sufficient pressure to produce physical contact between the conductive coatings of the two interfacing sheets.

Resistive touchscreens are generally the more affordable of the two types of touchscreen technology, though they provide lower image quality, are less quick to respond (since physical pressure must be applied), and aren’t multi-touch enabled since they can register only one pressure-point at a time.

The reliability and durability of resistive touchscreens have broad industrial uses and are commonly found in warehouse, restaurant, and retail point-of-sale applications, as well on industrial machine control panels.

Capacitive Touchscreens

Though capacitive touchscreens didn’t explode onto the consumer scene until the advent of the iPhone, their invention in the mid 1960s preceded that of the resistive touchscreen by over 10 years.

Due to its superior image quality and instant responsiveness, almost all consumer touchscreen devices feature capacitive technology. Capacitive touchscreens rely on the electrical conductivity of the human body, using electrical conductivity rather than physical pressure as the input, thus effecting alterations in the screen’s electrical field. These alterations are triangulated by the touchscreen’s processor to calculate a pair of coordinates that “read” the touch location and allow for multi-touch functions like “pinch” and “zoom.”

Because capacitive technologies rely on the electrical charge generated through direct contact with the human body, capacitive touchscreens are generally unresponsive to a gloved finger or any surface that does not emit an electrical charge. This limitation does not apply, however, to capacitive touch technology that incorporates an ITO layer that registers even non-electrically charged touch.

Some capacitive touchscreen technologies incorporate a protective layer anterior to the display that protects it from moisture, extreme temperature fluctuations, vandalism, and cleaning products, allowing for industrial and outdoor applications in storefronts, ATMs, flow meters, thermostats, medical equipment, and other computational devices.

At Pivot, we’re the driving force behind some of the most innovative industrial touchscreen technology that’s been brought to market. If you’re looking to bring an industrial product or medical device to market or simply to enhance your manufacturing operations, we can help. At Pivot, we have a track record of over forty years of expert experience in partnering with businesses to help them successfully launch new products, and with manufacturers to achieve state-of-the-art operations. Contact us today and see what we can do for you.

Expanding Into Developing Country Markets

Many mid-sized companies feel the pull toward global expansion at one time or another. Developing country markets offer a number of advantages, but venturing into new markets brings new challenges as well. It’s important to do your research and make sure expansion into developing countries is right for your company. Here are some tips to help you ensure your global expansion is a success.

Research your market

As with any new expansion or change in your marketing, it’s important to do your market research. Your brand must be a good fit with your target customers in the country or countries you plan to expand into. Make sure you conduct research before deciding where you want to expand. This will help ensure you choose the right developing country to expand to first.

Learn about your competitors

Just because you are venturing into a developing country, doesn’t mean you won’t have any competition. Local businesses know the regulatory environment better than new market entrants do, and this can be a big advantage. Be sure to research the area and know the local regulations, as well as who you will be competing against.

Know the rules you’re operating under

Global and national rules are different. The demands on a global business are much different from those imposed on a domestic firm. Understanding the regulations you’ll be subject to, as well as any differences – official or unofficial – between how foreign and local businesses are treated will help you accurately weigh the pros and cons of expanding into developing country markets.

Appreciate the locals

Local talent is key to the success of mid-sized businesses that are expanding globally. A global operation can be sustained and supported much more easilywhen it provides jobs for locals. Take the time to make sure that local staff are trained properly and are provided with incentives that encourage long-term employment.

Local employees are a great source of information as well. There will be a number of different international business customs you will need to learn about in order to do business globally and the locals can help you learn them.

Be patient

It can take some time before your business is completely ready to start selling products in developing country markets. Be prepared to be in it for the long haul when going global. As more companies expand into developing markets, it will become more efficient for other countries, but it’s also important to do your research and make sure this expansion is the right move for your company. Expanding into developing country markets is a long-term strategy, and you may not see rewards immediately.

Making sure your company is ready to enter markets in developing countries is going to take a lot of patience, knowledge, and research. If you’re not sure where to start when it comes to this expansion, Pivot International can help. Pivot offers a wide range of business expertise from managing your supply chain, to advising you on business development and helping guide you through the product certification process. Contact us today to learn more about our International Business Services.

Breaking Into the Toy Market as a Mid-Size Company

Breaking into the toy market as a mid-size company is easier than you think. There are a few key elements that every successful entrepreneur in the toy industry has paid attention to. You must do your research, create a prototype, and keep your idea to yourself until you are ready to launch.

Do Your Research

As is true with any market research, you can’t overdo it. Market research will tell you if your product will be a success or not. There are many ways to go about conducting market research. You can hire a marketing research firm, or you can conduct your own primary or secondary research.

Primary research is the type of research where you or someone else in your company goes to toy stores and finds out what toys are popular right now. You might also want to talk to parents and kids via focus groups and consider joining an organization like the Toy Industry Association Inc. From there you can visit trade shows and learn about trends in the toy industry.

Secondary research involves reading about what other people have already researched.

Create a Prototype

In order to find out if your idea is feasible, you will need to create a prototype. A great design is the foundation for a great product. Not only do you want to make sure your toy idea comes out looking and functioning like you expect, but it’s also important you can manufacture it as efficiently as possible. A prototype also gives you something concrete to show people and get them excited about your toy.

Keep Quiet

It’s hard to stay quiet when you have a good idea but in an industry as lucrative as the toy industry, it’s important to keep your idea to yourself until you’ve got a prototype ready to show people. Competitors will always copy great ideas, so try and keep it a secret as long as you can. You should also consider speaking to an intellectual property lawyer.

The toy industry is huge, yet there is always room for great ideas. Make sure you do your research, stay quiet about your idea as long as possible, and create a prototype you can shop around to potential investors, wholesalers, and retailers if your company won’t be selling it directly.

If you need help breaking into the toy market, Pivot International is a leader in product design, development, and manufacturing. We also offer business development services to help you plan your entry into the toy market. We can help you with market research, advertising, and even external sales consulting. Contact us to learn more about our business development services today.

Play-Doh, Bubble Wrap, and More – How Famous Products Came to Be

Bringing a new product to market can be a long, difficult process. If you’re feeling discouraged, try reading these stories of how some of the products we all know and love came to be.

Bubble Wrap

We all love to pop those little pockets of air on those sheets of bubble wrap, and, oh yes, to use those sheets to wrap our valuable items in when shipping them. But bubble wrap is an interesting product because it was not initially designed to do what we use it for now.

It was actually originally designed as a form of wallpaper, essentially as two shower curtains attached together. But once that idea fell flat, one of the inventor’s had a moment of inspiration during a long flight and realized that the pliable, porous material could be used to protect fragile items during transport.

The potential lesson here is that if a product you’re developing doesn’t seem to be working in one area, it might work in another. It’s important to be flexible about the ideal use for what you’re creating.

Athletic Training Bands

These elastic bands that are used both in fitness and for physical therapy seem to have come out of nowhere a few years back, but the idea actually originated with a Navy SEAL named Randy Hetrick. Hetrick took an idea that the SEALS use in training, where the soldiers learn how to sew in order to repair their equipment, and expanded on it, so to speak, by using those skills to create a small set of fitness bands to help him exercise while out on a mission where no gym or exercise equipment was available. In fact, the first “training band” was made of a jiu-jitsu belt and surplus webbing from a parachute.

Hetrick later took this innovation, refined it and used it as the basis to form a company called TRX that still sells some of the most popular lines of training bands in the world.

Warby Parker Eyeglasses

This line of stylish, affordable eyewear didn’t emerge from a situation as dire as Randy Hetrick’s TRX products, but it certainly must have seemed vital to the company’s founders.

Warby Parker was created because its founders were broke college students who needed new eyeglasses and couldn’t afford them. One of the students lost his glasses on a hiking trip and desperately needed a replacement, but the pricing without vision insurance was prohibitive.

So he and his friends did some digging and learned that prices were high largely because there was little competition; one company essentially dominated the market.

So Warby Parker was founded not just to provide a service, but to provide a disruption in the market to bring prices down in general.

Play Doh

This perennially popular children’s toy is another example of a product that started for an entirely different purpose. Play-Doh was originally conceived as a cleaning product for wallpaper during the era when homes were mostly heated by coal, leaving residue on the walls.

But as more and more homes started using different methods for heat, the company adapted to the changing market, taking out the detergent from their cleanser, adding some coloring, and creating a sensation for kids.

If these stories got you back in the mood to keep developing your product, consider Pivot International to help you across the finish line. Click here to find out more.

4 Project Management Tips to Improve Your Team’s Morale

Project management is a crucial element of getting a produce designed, developed, and to market on time and on budget.

But what exactly does “project management” mean when it comes to product development?

Project management is the strategy or plan you use to initiate, execute, control and close the work of your team to achieve specific goals and meet specific criteria by a projected deadline or completion date. Since you’re typically working on a strict deadline with possible repercussions to your product if you don’t meet that deadline, the main challenge of project management is being able to achieve all of the projected goals within those given time constraints.

So how do you accomplish this? We’ve compiled some tips from our project management team on how to ensure you meet your goals and progress through the process as smoothly as possible.

Document your requirements.

Our team strongly recommends having a detailed document that sets out the goals and deadlines of your company’s project from beginning to end. This timeline will serve as the skeleton of your project, and become a reference for your team to make sure things are moving along in both a timely and correct fashion.

This document is essentially the guide, or bible, for your project team and it will allow them to know exactly how far ahead or behind, or on schedule they are moving.

Build flexibility into your deadlines

It’s a good idea to pad your deadlines a bit, even if you ideally want to stick to your schedule. High-quality products shouldn’t be rushed.

Even if you feel pressure to get a project, or product, completed by a certain date, it’s important to remember that the ultimate goal is to have things done as correctly, not quickly, as possible. Deadlines are important, yes – but getting the right result out of your project is even more important.

No one will want to buy a shoddily made product, even if it comes out into the marketplace on time.

Identify the risks

Identifying and understanding the potential risks inherent in your product development will help you avoid sudden roadblocks that might otherwise derail your project. This is particularly true in the area of medical product development.

Risk identification can mean anything from figuring out the potential pitfalls of working with a new materials vendor, to thoroughly exploring the cutting-edge technology you’re working with.

And when you’re developing a medical product, there’s a much greater risk that must be studied: the risk to a potential patient. When a product involves protecting human life, figuring out the risks, what could go wrong, and how to fix whatever does go wrong, is a vital part of your project management strategy that should be in place from the beginning.

Acknowledge your milestones

Keep up your team’s morale by publicly acknowledging the milestones your team meets. It won’t just help your team – it will have a positive effect on the rest of your company, too.

Letting people know how the development process is going reassures everyone involved that your team is on top of the project, and it makes your project team feel valued and appreciated. There’s nothing wrong with owning up to it when a project is behind schedule, but it’s even better to celebrate those successful moments during the life cycle of the project.

Pivot International has been an important part of many different companies’ project management processes, but we offer a lot more services, as well. Click here to find out more.