PC World Articles by Kurt Thomet
GPS Can Help Your Business
I went on vacation recently, and during that time I realized how dependent I have become on GPS applications to find what I am looking for. GPS devices maximize my vacation time by letting me drive less, since by using them, I never get lost. And driving less means I'm living a greener life, too.
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Pilot Tests Can Save Your Business Big Bucks
The romance of change, the excitement of new, the rush of purchasing power. We all get wrapped up in new projects and sometimes don't let the rational side of our brains take over to plan how to buy that new technology for our company or for ourselves. Peer pressure is strong. Our kids wearing "uggly" fur boots in the summer, that cost 3 times what normal shoes cost, is an everyday example of the power of peer pressure. I often look at those hot trends and wonder what it would take to create that same type of lemming movement for technology sales.
During our days in technology when IBM used to be a hardware company, there were lemming movements to buy IBM. For adults, these can be career-saving decisions to go with what everybody else went with. We used to hear that "yes, it costs more, but you never get fired for buying IBM."
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Meet Kurt Thomet
I am the sum total of my 25 years in leading edge technology sales and marketing. For the last 15 years, I have run Quest Solution, an Enterprise Mobility Technology and Solution company that has been awarded Inc. 500 Status (and 5000) for fast growth. I started in PC reselling in the days of Commodore Computers, moving to selling Point of Sale Systems for Liquor stores and Ski shops. Along the way, we have gotten better at identifying leading edge vs bleeding edge technology. Mobile computing came along with barcodes and wireless communications. We acted as the first distributor of Aironet which then became Ciscos Wi-FI solutions. A venture-backed, Pen-based computing company in the days of the Apple Newton/Grid Systems pen systems was a great education with Geoffry Moore (Crossing the Chasm Author) directing our marketing efforts. Handwriting recognition, voice recognition, voice response all started decades ago with systems that were big and bulky, it took time, but now they are small, fast and affordable. One technology that we invested in and lost was RFID as it was mandated by the government and the major retailers. Overall we have been lucky often and bloody less often.
In my current job at Quest, we write and resell software solutions that run on rugged mobile computers that are often wirelessly enabled with carrier modems or Wi-Fi radios. Often we use barcodes, RFID, voice, and mobile computing technologies to create world-class solutions for our supply chain customers. We consult, service, install and resell. We collaborate with customers and others in this great industry to delivery best in class solutions to Fortune 2000 companies and SMB companies smart enough to emulate the bigger competitors in their industries. We are extremely creative, nimble and adaptable to change. It is my belief that companies who automate now to reduce costs, eliminate errors and improve processes will dust their competitors.
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