That is, if wrangling 100 employees, 30 trucks, and more than 400 dumpsters can be called simple.
Coordinating those moving parts is crucial to growing the business—and to saving the sanity of Stephanie Lloyd, 41, who has run the company for the past four years.
Until recently, Lloyd’s used a hodgepodge of spreadsheets, paper ledgers, and accounting software on company PCs to keep track of its workers and equipment.
To make matters worse, the company used radios to coordinate with its workers on the job, and the more cell phone towers that came online in Minnesota, the worse Lloyd’s radio reception got.
It was time, the Lloyds decided, to drag their company into the 21st-century world of smartphones.