Tile installations date back to 2500 BC – yes, BC. People discovered that if you take natural clay and mix with minerals, heat them to extreme temperatures then allow them to cool, you end up with the world’s first honey-do task – maybe...

Choosing the right ladder for the right job On any job, the right tools make all the difference, and that includes choosing the appropriate ladder. Ladders are commonly manufactured from three materials: aluminum, wood, or fiberglass. Although aluminum...

This is how we work through our challenges and provide solutions to them. If you want to see more blogs, case studies, or monographs, visit www.resicomonline.com. In the competitive auto dealership environment, it makes sense to maintain optimal conditions...

“Catastrophe” is defined as an event causing unexpected and sudden damage. Torrential rain and flash flooding destroyed hundreds of homes in a suburb of Chicago after a summer storm. For Resicom, the destruction was personal. Employees had...

How do you respond with quick thinking solutions and resources when a car crashes through a storefront. Summary A client who schedules preventative maintenance and national rollouts had a critical facility emergency. A car had driven right into one of...

SAVING ENERGY WHILE INCREASING COMFORT The average air conditioning unit requires more than 3,500 watts of energy while in use. Compare that to a typical ceiling fan that uses only 60 watts at the highest speed setting, and you’ve got a prime opportunity...

What other ways do you feel organizational clarity can help your business, especially in facility maintenance. Check out our other topics at www.resicomonline.com. I believe organizational clarity is necessary for a company to enjoy long term success...

LIGHTING THE WAY TO A GREENER FUTURE AND A GREENER BOTTOM LINE Ever wondered why incandescent bulbs get so hot to the touch? It’s because they create excess heat energy that isn’t converted into light. What a waste! Compact florescent light...

How does your company fix simple preventative maintenance problems? Check out our other blogs, case studies, and monographs at www.resicomonline.com/blog/ How does changing a 9-volt battery save a facility hundreds of dollars later? A national retailer...

S aving Energy While Increasing Comfort From an engineering and energy perspective, exterior doors are simply holes in a facility structure that allow outside air access, while allowing ambient air to escape. If you detect a summer breeze or winter chill...

Check out our other blogs at www.resicomonline.com/blogs/ Ever wondered why incandescent bulbs get so hot to the touch? It’s because they create excess heat energy that isn’t converted into light. What a waste! Compact florescent light-bulbs...

What are ways your business has researched energy costs and the strategies of implementing them? Other monograph series are available at http://bit.ly/bTrDRa. Low Cost Energy Savings With A Big ROI One of the most cost effective energy efficiency measures...

Check out our blogs, entrepreneur cafe, and case studies at http://bit.ly/a8ZW7g. Let us know what you think, find us on twitter or Facebook too! Why should a significant block of time be scheduled for quarterly strategic meetings when busy executives...

We believe in the bold pursuit of what normal should be. Experience it. Find other case studies, quotes, or our entrepreneurial page at http://bit.ly/dw79vl. Society teaches us to be leery of questions. Detectives ask questions, offering little in way...

How has your business handled issues with structure, financial issues, and other risks? My approach to the financial aspect of business is best summed up by the oxymoron “Aggressive Conservatism”. I aggressively approach the financial well...

Check out our other entrepreneur blogs and case studies at http://bit.ly/aUHWdR. As business owners and managers, we are often put to the test. We face all sorts of situations with which there is handbook on how to deal with the situation. We need to...

Emerging Business Leaders is a program that we built that brings together young, insightful, talented members of a team to develop their leadership skills. This program serves as a platform for educating members on each discipline of business structure...

During difficult economic times, it is important to drive down costs. Although there are many ways to accomplish this, some cost cutting can cause permanent damage to your business. My approach to cost cutting is to turn it into a contest, which I have...

All businesses are indirectly in the insurance business. I am not referring to the traditional types of insurance, rather I am referring to the management of risk. The people we hire, the technology we put in place, the operational procedures we produce...

What does workplace reconnaissance mean to you? Gathering pertinent information to make informed decisions leads to greater likelihood of success. I call this task “Workplace Reconnaissance”. Lets look a common scenario. The leader of a business...

How do you improve car dealership service areas that are traditionally dingy, dark and dull? How would you have done it differently? This is how we recognized the problem, though of solutions, and laid out a plan of action. A dealership decided that their...

These were Resicom's problems, challeges, and solutions to some of our industry specific problems. Other case studies or blogs can be found at http://www.resicomonline.com/blog/. Project Overview Purchasing a shiny, new car is an exciting event. A...