As a key decision maker in a healthcare organization, you have to deal with a lot of expensive assets to deliver quality care on a daily basis. From ECG equipment and pacemakers to MRI machines and laboratory microscopes, all these assets can impact the way your doctor/nurse/physician assistant provides the treatment. But how do you manage these huge amounts of assets, consumable inventory, and a long list of expiration dates and warranties?

Hey there. What do you feel about taking a trip back in time? Let’s say we go back 20 years; you probably remember seeing your school’s shelves and cupboards brimming and overflowing with records and books. And below it would be the years or categories. Having to scour through the load would take a substantial amount of time, not to forget a lot of patience. Imagine browsing through all those records, it could take you anywhere from minutes to hours to find what you were looking for.

Revenue is a term indispensable in corporate talk. As it’s the largest number on the profit and loss statement for the company, revenue is frequently referred to as “the top line.” And business owners and managers are very attentive to this statistic. Businesses in all asset-intensive industries, particularly the power and utility sectors, are under increasing pressure to deliver better customer service, improve equipment uptime, and advance performance predictability.

In today’s Geo Economics and a truly globalized world, it has become easier for products and services to reach consumers and industry alike. To reach the customers and consumers directly can be expensive and an operational challenge as it would require a large workforce to sell, deploy, and service the products/ services. For a growing organization, the initial focus is towards acquiring customers, expanding market reach, providing a good customer experience, and containing costs at the same time.

When your company has hundreds or even thousands of physical assets, it’s essential to know where these assets are located and their operational status. Otherwise, you have to deal with outages and compliance issues that can create drastic business implications. From computer monitors to industrial equipment, tracking and controlling your assets with asset tags is critical to your company’s bottom line.

Are you a company that has assets in the hundreds? Maybe even in the thousands? If so, knowing the location and operational status of your company’s physical assets is imperative. It may sound repetitive, but we can’t overstate that your company’s profitability depends on being able to identify, manage, and control all of your assets. Physical assets are frequently used, sold, repaired, upgraded, removed, or even stolen.

Asset management is an evolving process as enterprises face increasing compliance and regulatory requirements. Enterprises also continue to expand their asset inventory as part of their growth and work with multiple vendors and third parties. This diverse range of assets is best managed with a centralized asset management platform that covers asset monitoring, including accurate auditing.

Quality of Service (QoS) uses methods or technologies on networks to control traffic and ensure the performance of critical applications with limited network capacity. It enables organizations to adjust their overall network traffic by prioritizing specific high-performance applications. Your internet connection is like a highway where different types of vehicles travel to reach their destination. Your car drivers, truckers, average commuters, and emergency services vehicles all share the same lanes.

In 2005, I started my career as a UX designer. A few years in, I was fiercely passionate about the little things that made a piece of software friendly and usable. Before working on the designs, I wanted to understand how the product works and what it could potentially do for the customer. I felt it was a part of the process. But soon, I grew more interested in how products can help achieve business differentiation.