Nick Foy – The Power of Process
SEASON: 5 EPISODE: 8
Episode Overview:
On this episode of Becoming Preferred, we’re tackling a challenge every growing business faces: scaling without chaos. My guest, Nick Foy, is here to show us how. Nick is an expert in aligning technology to build seamless processes, helping businesses escape the disruption that comes from disconnected solutions.
Nick’s passion lies in empowering businesses to scale efficiently, creating streamlined workflows that eliminate bottlenecks and foster sustainable growth. He’ll be sharing his insights on how to leverage technology strategically, ensuring your systems work for you, not against you. If you’re ready to unlock your company’s potential and build a foundation for seamless scaling, join me for my conversation with Nick Foy.
Guest Bio:
Nick Foy is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Evangelist of Silverdale Technology, which provides access to world-class processes, systems, and change management methods regardless of their size or budget. Going against the grain of the ERP industry, Nick and his team are ‘democratizing ERP’ with their unique perspectives, such as their standard business process library, fixed price implementation and money-back guarantees.
Nick is well placed to do so, with over 30-years of experience in business and technology consulting and leadership positions, particularly in logistics and supply chain, at Amazon, Capgemini Consulting, ModusLink Corporation, 3663 First for Foodservice, and The Glenmorangie Distillery Company.
Born in Scotland and currently living in rural Washington, USA, Nick is a frequent traveler, having made it all around the US, Europe, and Asia for work. He also spares time for his interests, such as being an aspiring guitar player, whisky sampling as a hobby, and being an early adopter and owner of a large tech graveyard of discarded first editions.
Resource Links:
- Website: SilverdaleSilverdale: Expert Odoo Partner for Seamless ERP Solutions
- Product Link: SilverdaleComprehensive Odoo Audit Services | Silverdale
Insight Gold Timestamps:
04:51 Building processes is not a priority
06:58 Just keep asking why until you actually get to the root cause
08:38 You should spend way more time understanding the problem
10:25 Processes have a half-life
12:59 BPMN.io Business Process Model and Notation
13:32 If you can’t see it, you can’t optimize it
17:13 We are an official Odoo partner. Odoo is an all in one business software
18:49 Don’t try and do it yourself
21:24 What are you missing out on?
22:35 What’s the role of company culture in a successful process or tech implementation?
24:52 W hat’s the one piece of advice you’d give to a business owner who feels completely overwhelmed…
26:03 Frustration doesn’t help at all
27:49 What it allows you to do is to do more, and to do better (AI)
29:29 I t’s never too early, but it’s always too late
31:37 If you are willing to adapt and adopt some of those processes, actually the engagement can be quite lightweight
Connect Socially:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickfoy/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/silverdaletech/
Email: somroo.hassaan@silverdaletech.com
Sponsors:
Rainmaker LeadGen Platform Demo: https://bookme.michaelvickers.com/lite/rainmaker-leadgen-platform-demo
Rainmaker Digital Solutions: https://www.rainmakerdigitalsolutions.com/
Resources: https://becomingpreferred-podcast.com/resources/
About the Host, Michael
Michael Vickers inspires enduring success, redefining the possible for today’s sales professionals, leaders, and managers. Whatever the sales or business opportunity, Michael will greatly enhance your odds of success. Every person who has an idea to promote, an employee to motivate, or a deal to negotiate, will attain a new level of success after an event with Michael.
Michael is also the best-selling author of Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition, and Dance of the Rainmaker: Creating Authentic Differentiation in Today's Competitive Marketplace, where he shares his secrets to achieving the very highest level of sales mastery.
Whatever the result you’re striving for, if it involves influencing others or achieving success through others, Michael will build your confidence and accelerate your performance.
Michael is the Executive Director of Summit Learning Systems, a company that offers customized in-house training programs to many of today’s leading companies. He teaches thousands of business professionals throughout North America the skills required to achieve optimum performance.