Case Study | Heine Brothers' Coffee

Louisville, KY-based Heine Brothers' Coffee is a 100% organic, fair-trade coffee roaster with 18 Kentucky and Southern Indiana locations. Since the company started using Ninety, they've gained greater visibility throughout the organization to help harness real power from their business operating system. Plus, leaders and team members alike can now measure the true value of their time.

"Implementing Ninety has helped us delve into the functionality of Issues from team to team more easily," says Jessica Lord, COO and chief cheerleader for Ninety at Heine Brothers'. "The smooth workflows and centralized spot to see Issues and To-Dos save time, especially if I want to pop into a Scorecard before one of our departmental meetings just to see everyone's status."

Rating the Next Meeting a 10

Whether remote or in-person, running their departmental meetings within Ninety helps Heine Brothers' lead more efficiently during a meeting, with less administrative time needed after a meeting. Also, the ability to rate a meeting at its conclusion enables them to understand what makes one meeting better than another, what's going great and what isn't.

"Recently, I've been focusing a bit more on meeting ratings to see if we are making good use of everybody's time," Jessica says. "Low ratings are always an indicator for me to ask what happened. And it's always fun to ask what happened during a 10-rated meeting that made it great."

Ninety is Always One Click Away 

Jessica relies on Ninety's mobile accessibility to save time and keep her on track, no matter where she's working. Ninety works like an app when accessed from the home screen of a mobile device, so she simply clicks the Ninety icon, logs in and starts documenting when inspiration strikes.

Client Success Support a Huge Success

In addition to providing real people ready to help whenever needed, Ninety's Client Success team has assembled a series of videos, guides, best practices and live training webinars for clients to help them get the most out of Ninety.

That's not all! Christine Watts, Head of Client Success and Product and Coach Jim Haviland host a monthly webinar called Office Hours, where they discuss the latest use cases and topics to help clients facilitate successful product use. They regularly open up the webinars to the audience for discussion. After the webinar, a playback of the recording is sent out to participants and available on demand.