Digital distractions and consumerized applications can drain employee productivity within MSPs and across all types of end-customer businesses.
In this Channel Angels podcast, Produce8 CEO Joel Abramson describes how employees can begin to track their digital days and regain 90 minutes of daily productivity. Note: You can catch up with Abramson and Produce8 co-founders Chris Day and Mark Scott at the IT Nation Connect 2023 conference.
Produce8 CEO Joel Abramson: How employees can avoid digital distractions & regain 90 minutes of productivity — or relaxation — per day.
The conversation covers:
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0:00 – Introductions
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0:53 – Produce8’s business journey, mission and focus on team productivity: Helping you recover 90 minutes of productivity per day.
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1:55 – Designed for MSPs and end-customers.
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2:35 – How consumerized technology is designed to distract and engage you.
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3:33 – The Produce8 founding team: MSP software and MSP industry veterans such as Chris Day and Mark Scott.
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6:22 – Top Down Ventures investments in the MSP sector.
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6:58 – The Produce8 business timeline: The company journey software so far.
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10:11 – Shifting from a consumer KPI (example: 10,000 steps per day for health) to a business productivity KPI, the tracking of time and the regaining of time.
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10:52 – Key areas of work time and productivity leaks that need to be studied: (1) Meetings and non-productive applications. (2) Task switching. (3) over-collaboration. (4) employee burnout and more.
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13:22 – Building a software solution that helps employees and customers to re-gain time.
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16:45 – Extending from Produce8 personal mode to team mode – what are the benefits?
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18:00 – Is the software multi-tenant for MSPs?
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19:04 – What the Produce8 mobile app allows users to do.
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20:50 – How Produce8’s software integrates with everything from Day 1 — instead of requiring custom integrations to third-party applications.
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22:10 – Recent Produce8 business milestones and goals for the company at the IT Nation Connect 2023 conference in Orlando, Florida.
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27:08 – Conclusion
Disclosure: Channel Angels Managing Director Joe Panettieri is a Produce8 board member.
