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Sailing the digital sea
That the world is a much smaller place thanks to the internet and digital communication technology has probably not escaped anyone’s...
Jun 26, 20183 min read


GDPR is coming: lessons from the South
On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. Thereafter it will apply to those of us around the world...
May 15, 20184 min read


IDU receives Rising Star award from FinancesOnline
The team behind idu-Concept has worked tirelessly to provide businesses with a robust platform that simplifies and streamlines both...
May 8, 20182 min read


In Google we trust
There is a Tesla Roadster broadcasting David Bowie on repeat while travelling through space. What a time to be alive! And, I’d argue, the...
Apr 19, 20182 min read


APIs: enabling best-of-breed solutions for your business
Think about your smartphone and the apps you have loaded onto it. Sure, it arrived with some pre-loaded, but most you have probably...
Apr 10, 20183 min read


Unlocking An Agile Accounting House
With technology hurtling headlong into all aspects of life, from our homes, cars and workplaces, to banks, schools and hospitals, it’s no...
Mar 28, 20185 min read


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...
Mar 14, 20183 min read


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....
Feb 27, 20182 min read


In 2018, consider the cost of doing nothing
Depending on your outlook, my column last month would either have exhilarated or terrified you. And whether you are champing at the bit,...
Feb 13, 20183 min read


A Heavy Price Tag on Doing Nothing – Part 2
Today, doing nothing is going to cost you in the long run. Fight inertia by learning its tell-tale signs and what to do about them ‘The...
Jan 24, 20185 min read


End-of-year reviews: Pass me my crystal ball
End-of-year reviews used to make sense. They are a bit of a chore, but ultimately useful, and, if things have gone well during the year,...
Jan 16, 20183 min read


A Heavy Price Tag on Doing Nothing
The business world is a bewildering, fast-moving place right now. But don’t fall into the trap of bunkering down and doing nothing,...
Dec 18, 20175 min read


Give Inertia the Boot
Have you noticed that problems are solved and decisions are made differently today, especially by millennials? What’s the first thing...
Dec 7, 20172 min read


Spreadsheets: a victim of their own success?
There is so much talk of digital disruption today, that it is easy to forget that one of the most significant disruptors of them all has...
Nov 8, 20173 min read


Expense management: Honing the double-edged sword
Ironically, growth and success can be a double-edged sword for small and medium-sized businesses. On the one hand, you’re growing and...
Oct 17, 20173 min read


What is the new normal?
There’s no doubt that the last 12 months have got most people muttering, ‘Well, truth is stranger than fiction, after all.’ It’s easy to...
Sep 26, 20172 min read


When your normal is change then change is opportunity
It’s easy to get disruption fatigue when literally every article you read reminds you that digital disruption is here, and that if you...
Sep 7, 20173 min read


Holy cow, the robots are coming!
Back in the day, when I set out on some of my first auditing jobs, I was accompanied by a formidable team of comptometrists. Their...
Aug 30, 20173 min read


Digital Darwinism: it’s still adapt or die
Charles Darwin was right about survival depending on our ability to adapt. And never has this been more true than in the face of the...
Aug 1, 20173 min read


Lockdown Time Thieves
In my May article I suggested that one of the biggest challenges to innovation and business progress is simply finding the time to think,...
Jul 12, 20172 min read
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