The Icehouse: Digital Applications


We recently wrote up a summary of the tools we are using at The Icehouse to help us to be more digital, more data literate and be ‘this century’!

Our approach has been to hustle a bunch of apps around four areas – Financial Data, Sales Data, Marketing and Communications Data & People & Talent. In each case, we have a ‘central’ source of truth or platform that is our chosen ‘core’ that we build around. So that means Xero for Financial, Salesforce for Sales, Hubspot for MarComms while in the people case we have a few different sources of truth, HR always has an excuse! Then we jump into these ecosystems and just choose stuff that works for us, we kind of glue it all together and just learn as we go.

You can download a breakdown of all of our tools and how they work together here.

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There are some awesome apps out there – like we love Futrli for forecasting, we freaking love InsightSquared for getting sales notifications on our phones and Slack for group communication and engagement. If you want to have a chat to any of our team about these platform areas – just ping the people listed here, we want to share what makes it easy for us to save time, get more connected and do epic stuff for us and for our customers:

Financial – Sebastian McLarin

Sales & Data – Mariko Rogers

Marketing – Veronica Aris

People & Talent – Scott Turner

It’s important to mention that this is purely a summary of what we use. You can carry out your own discovery process to find what works for you, as everyone will have different needs. It’s just easier to start if you have an example to look at! Change doesn’t have to be fast or scary, just do something, try it out, learn from it and keep hustling.

 



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