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Sales meetings suck? It doesn't have to be this way

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....

Matt Koopmans
13.03.25 03:53 PM - Comment(s)
Automation and AI - the good, the bad, and the downright ugly

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...

Matt Koopmans
04.03.25 02:50 PM - Comment(s)
Feeling your systems are disjointed? It could be your accounting system!
Do you have your operations sorted, but things seem to get unstuck the moment you need to create invoices, or reconcile payments? Read this article on what the cause can be, and what you can do to remedy this.
Matt Koopmans
04.02.25 11:34 AM - Comment(s)
Cost or Value? Unpacking the Business Software Dilemma

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, ...

Matt Koopmans
29.01.25 03:24 PM - Comment(s)
Complying with the Essential Eight frame-work - a sensible approach

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...

Matt Koopmans
22.01.25 11:12 AM - Comment(s)
My 4 predictions for 2024 - Spot On, or Dead Wrong?

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. 

Matt Koopmans
24.12.24 11:12 AM - Comment(s)
Your Business is Alive!

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...

Matt Koopmans
30.09.24 07:36 PM - Comment(s)
Small business matters - or, it should, if a country is to weather the economic storm

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...

Matt Koopmans
12.09.24 07:00 PM - Comment(s)
Linux desktop edging towards 5% - what this could mean for you

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...

Matt Koopmans
05.08.24 09:00 PM - Comment(s)
Stop treating your Business Applications as consumer apps

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...

Matt Koopmans
12.03.24 01:54 PM - Comment(s)