Daiv Russell

About Daiv Russell

Daiv Russell is a Software Engineering Strategist with Envision Software, a software project management and development outsourcing company committed to helping information technology organizations solve problems, increase revenues, and reduce costs by guiding software development teams through project management chaos. Envision publishes Luminary, a monthly software project management newsletter.
DRussell@EnvisionSoftware.com

How to Recognize Organization Structures: Balanced Matrix

Previously, before 1970, most large corporations were structured in departments. These departments were logical partitions of the company and any given groups of employees reported to the head of the department.
Date Posted: February 23, 2008

Understanding Psychological Marketing Tactics

Abraham Maslow presented a theory that ordinates wants and desires in a comprehensive, consecutive, arrangement. According to Maslow, a person's desires develop from the lower order desires, such as feeling safe, to the higher order desires,...
Date Posted: February 23, 2008

Self-Actualization and Your Sales Team

Motivation and retention of employees are two of the biggest challenges facing Sales Managers today. The rapidly-changing workplace of today mandates that employees stay motivated.
Date Posted: February 23, 2008

Forget the Check - Send Your Marketing Prospects your Wallet in the Mail!

There are many proven strategies to help market a new business or to help increase business from previous customers. The variety of direct mail ideas alone is nearly endless.
Date Posted: February 18, 2008

The Benefits of Strong Matrix Organization Structures

Earlier than 1970, large businesses were most typically formatted in a silo design, where workers were divided into departments that report to a line or functional manager.
Date Posted: February 18, 2008

Matrix Organizational Structure: Optimize Cross-Departmental Relationships

Until the 1970s, many big business organizations functioned in silos. They were groups of workers who worked in secluded groups and were subordinate to line or functional managers. Consider an example of several columns on a page.
Date Posted: February 18, 2008

Maslow's Marketing Pyramid

Psychologist Abraham Maslow came up with a theory which described the hierarchy of human needs. Whether or not your product is essential to human survival, it will fall into one of the categories in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Date Posted: February 18, 2008

Motivating Employees through Needs Fulfillment

Abraham Maslow devised a Hierarchy of Needs through which he tried to communicate the human's basic concerns and desires. He focused on some of the most intellectual people of his day to base his research.
Date Posted: February 18, 2008

Do Magnetic Signs for You Cleaning Service Really Work?

If you're a cleaning expert, you’re always looking for more business. Even the most delighted clients still move, change jobs, and disappear for all sorts of reasons.
Date Posted: February 18, 2008

Carrot Or Stick? Transactional Leadership Shows The Way

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs demonstrates that most people are more likely to act when they expect rewards or fear punishment. Any social system is more effective when a hierarchy clearly exists.
Date Posted: February 14, 2008