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Zoho Mail - the unsung hero of email collaboration?

If you run a business, you have email. What's left to innovate with email? This same question was posed in 2004, when Google launched GMail. The innovation Google brought to the table was: "don't browse but search your inbox". This was a massive innovation - it changed the way we handled o...

Matt Koopmans
17.11.19 11:44 AM - Comment(s)
Your purpose is your customer, PERIOD.

A "purpose driven business", fashionable, but what is it exactly? And what purpose is driven by the business? Most importantly - does it matter?

The answer to the last question is YES! It matters - but not in the way you would expect. In this article, we break down the purpose, and what dr...

Matt Koopmans
10.11.19 12:47 PM - Comment(s)
Success with your Digital Transformation Program - Revolution or Evolution?
Sustained change is a long running process. Sustained change, therefore, is rarely revolutionary - where many things are fundamentally changed at once - as too many of those will lead to inherent roadblocks in dependent processes, causing the whole system to collapse.
Matt Koopmans
03.11.19 02:06 PM - Comment(s)
Has your Digital Transformation partner transformed?
The key word in Digital Transformation is not digital - digital merely refers to the enabler - it is transformation. The objective of this post is to make us all look more critical at those that are claiming to be experts in delivering Digital Transformation.
Matt Koopmans
21.10.19 12:29 PM - Comment(s)
Requirements for your software implementation - Three things you must do

Implementing new business software is hard. Way harder than it should be - and usually we are the cause of the complexity. We tend to understand what we do in the business, but we do not fully understand why we do it, leading for overestimating the complexity of the process. There are three simple r...

Matt Koopmans
13.10.19 07:32 PM - Comment(s)

A first look at Zoho Books Budgeting function. Note that the initial minor bug at release as mentioned in the video had been resolved at the second day of release. All Zoho Books users, with or without Zoho Inventory integration, will have the budget menu available.

Matt Koopmans
09.10.19 10:16 AM - Comment(s)
Zoholics Sydney 2019 - the BIG anouncements

On 19 and 20 September 2019, the Zoho team visited Sydney with the Zoholics customer conference. Every year, this conference gets bigger, and better. With this year a number of BIG announcements from the Zoho team with regards to the already excellent value offer of Zoho One. In this post we will br...

Matt Koopmans
23.09.19 10:46 AM - Comment(s)
Lean Startup? Get yourself sorted with enterprise grade systems for a lean startup budget

In any startup scenario, there are two things you will never have enough of: time and cash -  the latter at least until a successful funding round. A great practice for any startup is to practice being lean - it teaches you to be frugal with these two scarce commodities of time and money, so th...

Matt Koopmans
10.09.19 08:46 AM - Comment(s)
Implementing business applications? GAME ON!

If you ever played a computer game, you know that great games start easy, and incrementally introduce new complexities. As Nolan K. Bushnell coined the phrase to describe the best games: "easy to learn, difficult to master". So what does this have to do with business applications? Surely, ...

Matt Koopmans
05.09.19 01:28 PM - Comment(s)