Best Practices

Most manufacturing M&A deals don't fail because of strategy. They fail because systems don't talk to each other. You can have the right acquisition, the right price, and the...

At Unstoppable Software, we’ve worked with countless teams to build and maintain custom software solutions. Over the years, we’ve encountered recurring challenges that negatively impact software [...]

There are many reasons why more and more development teams are going fully remote: the increasingly mature and expansive capabilities of cloud tools and development environments and team [...]

Custom-developed software is not always the best option. Seriously. And there are plenty of instances that we have turned down work that we didn’t believe would be a good fit for the customer. [...]

Do either of these situations sound familiar?   1) There’s one developer that’s been with the company for years. They’re not versatile or hardworking, but you can’t get rid of them, because [...]

In 2019, only 19% to 20% of computer software engineers and programmers were women — a number that’s been declining for the past thirty years. In the midwest, we have observed that women were [...]

Originating from an article written in 1988, the term “lean production” was first used to describe a manufacturing process that involves improvement of processes and minimizing costs. [...]

When it comes to manufacturing, constant improvement is crucial. Manufacturing companies are always looking for ways to improve the manufacturing process. One of the most...

Manufacturing is in the midst of its fourth industrial revolution. Experts are calling it Industry 4.0. This means that emerging technologies are helping to streamline business practices, which [...]

(If YouTube is blocked for you, you can access this video here) Recently someone asked me, “How do we decide what kinds of work we want to try to automate with software when we’re [...]

The number one priority for businesses large and small is meeting their sales targets.  For many of those companies, the problem is a disconnect between marketing and sales teams, one driven by [...]

Big companies sometimes struggle to complete innovative projects for a number of reasons – but often, it’s because corporate leaders don’t recognize the limitations of their [...]

Combining data and real-world locations through GIS technologies is a powerful way to gain customer and user insight. It tells businesses where to apply their resources, lets researchers discover [...]

Data science projects are being used by leading companies to grow business models and expand opportunities. How so? In general, data science efforts produce two results – they help produce [...]

Good software is reliable software. It rarely crashes or does strange things to the user. Making sure it’s reliable takes more than running the finished product through its paces. There are [...]

Modern healthcare is a land of contrasts. Within the past five years, innovations in the treatment and management of disease have multiplied at a speed never before attained by the medical field. [...]

“Read the friendly manual!” (Or something like that.) We don’t hear that saying as often as we used to, because so much software doesn’t come with friendly manuals. [...]

Software is useless without the customers that must use it. And if a customer can’t figure out how to interact with their new business application, say goodbye to repeat business. [...]