On March 31st, we hosted a meet up of our Primavera users in New York City in conjunction with Oracle. As the sun set over the Manhattan skyline, users had a chance to meet each other and mingle with the Oracle Primavera team as well. This event proved useful to creating connections among our diverse set of local clients. We look forward to hosting meet ups like this in the future!

Check out some images below from the event:

It is fascinating that a team culture is born out of the shared beliefs and values of the very individuals that fall under its influence. Almost paradoxically, the creation governs the creators. Said another way, the values driving culture motivate, nourish, and even moderate its own creators, the individuals within the organization.

Enstoa is excited to participate in the upcoming Oracle Industry Connect event. If you plan to attend, be sure to visit the Enstoa team!

Oracle Industry Connect is an invitation only event for industry executives to share expertise, insights and best practices. Enstoa is a Gold Sponsor of the conference. Be sure to attend our sessions!

Enstoa is excited to participate in the upcoming COLLABORATE 16 event. If you plan to attend, be sure to visit the Enstoa team!

COLLABORATE 16 is designed for power users and IT decision makers of Oracle’s technology and applications. Enstoa will exhibit and present at the conference. Stop by to visit us at booth 1139!

Enstoa is working with a $25B independent natural resources exploration and production company that is transforming its entire business. They’re embracing this effort despite the pain of the current economic environment. “We’re committed to modernizing our company, even with oil prices as low as they are,” noted the CFO at the project kickoff.

Enstoa is truly a people first company. At the start of each year, we gather all of our team members from around the world for our annual Spark session, 3 days of off-site meetings, interactive sessions, team building activities and events. We reflect on successes and lessons learned of the prior year, and socialize the strategy for the year ahead.

Just because you have data doesn’t mean you’re using it as a strategic asset.

That’s an important distinction. We observe some organizations believe that just because they have enterprise applications, codified processes, and collect heaps of data that they’re exercising all of their enterprise assets to achieve their strategic goals. And yet they aren’t.

Let’s explore why.

Most of us have been taught to believe incentive-based compensation (“bonuses”) to be an essential management tool. The widespread use of this in almost all industries around the globe is a testament to how entrenched a concept it has become. Enstoa tested this theory in 2013 by scrapping bonuses and can now confirm the practice is useless, even harmful. We grew revenue-per-employee by 40% within four quarters of making the change. It wasn’t an anomaly—our 2015 growth is solid and 2016 looks good.

As a tech company, how does Enstoa engineer in innovation and dynamic thinking? We strive to create teams made up of individuals that don’t think the same. We like our teams to consist of individuals with different backgrounds, ideals, anxieties, experiences, and personalities. We fear group-think and have a core belief that heterogeneous teams always outperform homogeneous teams.

NEW YORK, August 12, 2015 – For the fifth consecutive year, Inc. Magazine has recognized Enstoa, Inc. as one of the nation’s fastest growing private companies on their annual Inc. 5000 list.

Inc. is a premier business publication based out of New York City. Since 1982 Inc. releases the annual 5000 list, profiling the fastest-growing, privately owned businesses in the country. In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2015 Inc. 5000 companies is an impressive 133%, and the aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $216 billion.