We have all been called in on Friday morning. It is that time again - we are behind on our numbers, and it is time to slug it out with management, who just want the impossible. It is not our fault the market behaves as it does! 

Or...

The numbers are bad, we are at risk of not making our numbers....

The year 2000 - we crossed that barrier a quarter of a century ago. And no, the elevators did not go haywire, airplanes were not falling out of the sky, and nuclear power-plants did not go full meltdown because of the 'millennium bug'. 

Now we are again approaching a watershed moment - AI - or s...

With online business applications subscriptions having matured over the last two-and-a-half decades, there has been a fundamental shift in how we view business applications. Where companies used to invest large sums of money to licence and implement their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, ...

The Australian Cyber Security Centre, part of the Australian Signals Directorate, has published an Essential Eight framework. It is designed to help prevent cyber security incidents, and if they do occur, mitigate the damage caused to your business, as well as your stakeholders (i.e. prevent leakage...

On 28 December 2023 published 4 predictions for 2024 (read the article here) - it is now time to take stock and see which of these predictions have materialised, which have not (yet), and which were completely off the mark. 

Any business owner knows this - a business is like an organism. When all goes well, it grows, it moves, it thrives. But business can get "sick" as well. And often, the symptoms are managed but rarely addressed at the root cause. Sounds familiar? We do the same with our own health, why woul...

Let's get one thing very clear - unless you are a banker or an undertaker, the current economic climate is tough (very tough).  For some of it, we are affected by the international economic headwind coming our way due to global supply-chain, weak and feckless leadership, avoidable conflicts, an...

Over the last decade or so, Linux adoption hovered between 1 and 2 percent - where earlier in 2024 it broke the 3 percent. That was a massive deal for the Linux community, but for regular computer users, it remained unnoticed. Until now - the stat counter closed in July 2024 with 4.45% of all deskto...

Business Applications are increasingly commoditised - a subscription away from the next best thing in business applications. The applications are designed to get you "productive" in the shortest possible time (especially when there is a short time for trial). Each application may perform o...

Managing a business, large or small, means you will be managing transitions due to change. Internal change, such as pro-active market expansion, diversification, or internal organisational re-alignment (excuse my corporate speak here). Or external change in market conditions, legislation (when is th...

Predictions are tricky - it tends to be that only those predictions you do not commit to writing are coming true. Whether this is "observer bias" (i.e. now it is predicted, one could measure and influence the outcome), or simply a matter of luck - the fact of the matter is that predictions...

Why is implementing a suite of business applications so difficult? 

OK - you got me - it is a trick question. It isn't. But what has proven to be difficult - nearly impossible - is for businesses, business owners and leadership, to make a decision. You cannot look in two directions at once, and ...

With the release of ChatGPT v3.5  a few months ago, business large and small have jumped on the bandwagon to experiment with the AI functionality within their business. The software providers have not been sitting still either. With ChatGPT integration of various Zoho products (i.e. Writer, Soc...

Unless you have been leading the life-style of a hermit, you realise that nothing you see, hear, or read can be trusted at face-value. Mis-, dis-, and malinformation are the talking-points of the day for governments, NGO's, certain social media platforms, and mainstream media. 

Let's review one ...

As a security conscious partner to my clients, I get a lot of questions on cyber-security, and what to do to be "totally secure". Whilst it is impossible to be "totally secure", there are a number of simple steps you can take (and some that require a bit more configuration). ...

Analysing your Information Supply Chain

How does your business perform against Information Logistics standards? For small businesses, it is relatively easy to measure: how much time is lost by entering data and compiling reports? If you hear: I do not have time for any of that, then you are most like...