Last month the East Bay Chapter celebrated our landscape contractors recognized for their expertise in installation and maintenance at Bay Club, Crow Canyon in San Ramon. The views were stunning, but the award-winning projects were even better! Congratulations to: Allied Landscape, Baylands Landscape Management, Cali Scaping, Del Conte’s Landscaping, Inc., IRI Landscape Inc, Rock Paper Scissors, Suma Landscaping Inc. and Terra Landscape. We can’t wait to see what you enter into next year’s Beautification Awards Program!

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Does this sound familiar? You invest in a new software tool that promises to make your team more efficient and provide better visibility into your operations. Yet once the tech is rolled out, you’re confronted with inconsistent usage, bad data and a frustrated team.
 
This disconnect is because it is processes, not new platforms, that will determine your success.
 
“Technology doesn’t fix problems — it amplifies them,” says Loren McIrvin, CEO of Allied Landscape, based in Livermore, California. “If you have a strong, clearly defined process, technology will scale it, standardize it, and make it more efficient. If your process is unclear or inconsistent, technology will magnify that confusion across your entire organization.”
 
Doug McDuff, president and co-owner of Landscape America, based in Wrentham, Massachusetts, admits they’ve been guilty of purchasing software to solve a problem without assigning responsibilities and accountability to use the technology to its full capacity.
 
“We’ve wasted thousands of dollars thinking the software would fix things on its own,” McDuff says. “Every software needs to have someone who owns the implementation and utilization.” READ the article on the National Association of Landscape Professionals magazine.

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