E1: Produce8 CEO Joel Abramson - How Employees Can Regain 90 Minutes of Daily Productivity
Digital distractions and consumerized applications can drain employee productivity within MSPs and across all types of end-customer businesses.
In this Channel Angels podcast, Produce8 CEO Joel Abramson describes how employees can begin to track their digital days and regain 90 minutes of daily productivity. Note: You can catch up with Abramson and Produce8 co-founders Chris Day and Mark Scott at the IT Nation Connect 2023 conference.
The conversation covers:
0:00 - Introductions
0:53 - Produce8’s business journey, mission and focus on team productivity: Helping you recover 90 minutes of productivity per day.
1:55 - Designed for MSPs and end-customers.
2:35 - How consumerized technology is designed to distract and engage you.
3:33 - The Produce8 founding team: MSP software and MSP industry veterans such as Chris Day and Mark Scott.
6:22 - Top Down Ventures investments in the MSP sector.
6:58 - The Produce8 business timeline: The company journey software so far.
10:11 - Shifting from a consumer KPI (example: 10,000 steps per day for health) to a business productivity KPI, the tracking of time and the regaining of time.
10:52 - Key areas of work time and productivity leaks that need to be studied: (1) Meetings and non-productive applications. (2) Task switching. (3) over-collaboration. (4) employee burnout and more.
13:22 - Building a software solution that helps employees and customers to re-gain time.
16:45 - Extending from Produce8 personal mode to team mode - what are the benefits?
18:00 - Is the software multi-tenant for MSPs?
19:04 - What the Produce8 mobile app allows users to do.
20:50 - How Produce8’s software integrates with everything from Day 1 — instead of requiring custom integrations to third-party applications.
22:10 - Recent Produce8 business milestones and goals for the company at the IT Nation Connect 2023 conference in Orlando, Florida.
27:08 - Conclusion
Disclosure: Channel Angels Managing Director Joe Panettieri is a Produce8 board member.