IDU NEWS

The case for zero-based budgeting

Budgets can be an opportunity for reflection on strategy and alignment

Recession and Resilience

There might be a recession coming soon; or it might come later. Economists are notoriously bad at recognising recessions until we’re in...

Don’t forget about real life intelligence

The unintended consequence of forgetting people in the age of the machines While there is a fair bit of moral panic over the idea that...

Outsourcing: Time to get off the production line

Outsourcing is hardly a new concept. It allows us to effectively hive off non-core, yet still important, activities and outcomes to a...

The modern day alchemist: Turning busy into time

Peter Drucker, the management consultant that coined the phrase “knowledge worker” back in 1959, nailed it when he said: “Time is the...

Building an entrepreneurial culture

Last year this time I wrote that you should take an entrepreneurial view of your organisation and start experimenting and breaking stuff....

How running to standstill won’t get you ahead of the pack

Ask anyone how they are nowadays, and the answer is likely to be ‘crazy busy’ or something along those lines. Today’s world, designed...

The 2016 Budget Speech lacked transparency

Last week’s budget speech has been bugging us, there was a consistent vagueness to it all. There is a lack of certainty, a lack of...

IDU’s 7th Annual User Conference

Financial Managers, Financial Accountants, IT Managers and Financial Administrators from across the globe will gather for two days at the...

Empowering your employees

Too many businesses in South Africa see their employees as a problem to be managed as opposed to an asset to be optimised. Your business...

idu-Concept now available in the cloud

Budgeting and reporting software solution idu-Concept is now available in the cloud, making its benefits available to medium-sized...

Transparency – the solution to business and government corruption

Some days it feels like there is a new story of bribery, corruption or nepotism in our papers every day, but this is the case wherever...

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