Heroes Amongst Us…
Taken just outside the cemetery at Bretteville sur Laize - in a farmer's field. 2,958 WWII vets lie there, 2,871 are Canadian. I visited in 2014. Silence, amazement, pride, horror and respect all factored in to that visit. This story is not about me. It’s about an...
read moreNYSE Outage – Systems Will Fail – It’s a Given
This week's failure on the NYSE is a classic systems integration and IT investment failure. Business Owners can learn from this failure in many ways. I'm not here to rail on the NYSE and its outage. With a system as complex, regulated, and visible as the NYSE outage...
read moreCoaching – My Turn To Give Back
Is your software team driving you crazy? Are they telling you no all the time? Were they amazingly fast in the past but now they are slow as hell? As a business owner you'd think your software team would want to meet your needs - but they're not. And you want to fix...
read moreSoftware Team Depriving Owners Of Sleep
“At times I’d just lay - wide awake and terrified.” All because her software team had basically mutinied. They weren’t responding to her business needs. As a business owner she was the one paying for this supposedly high end software team. And they ignored her. They...
read moreNir Eyal – on harnessing technology…
"When harnessed correctly, technology can enhance lives through healthful behaviours that improve our relationships, make us smarter, and increase productivity." - Nir Eyal
read moreShiny Object Syndrome
Shiny Object Syndrome can destroy your business. As a business owner you know that being distracted by shiny things and squirrels is natural. But picking the future of your company’s technology base because something is new and shiny could be fatal. Shiny Object...
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