Strategic software vs non-strategic software
I can just as well be upfront about it and invite ridicule at once: There is no business / enterprise software that is first and foremost built to enable strategies, and thus could be termed “strategic”. Let’s look at some characteristics that could help to discern the difference between non-strategic business software and potentially strategic [...]
Stifling growth? Challenge some assumptions!
McKinsey Quarterly has an article in their May edition – “Preparing your organization for growth” – that yet again reminds me about the total inability to ask the right question. Or question any assumptions at all. If you live in a small apartment with one bedroom and your wife becomes pregnant with triplets, what will [...]
Get rid of the Calendar, and the Watch too
Those are leftovers from the industrial age and the biggest impediment to an effective society. Before I hear the protest I can just as well agree that sometimes it’s needed; like when I’m to meet somebody for a spot of lunch, or when an airplane or train operating company wants to ferry me and 120 [...]
Don’t touch the core
Or how SAP chooses stability over change. Sounds smart on the surface until you start to think: Change is the only possible path to survival, stability can only be temporary, that’s a law of nature. Now back from yet another…
Creating a new business: The old way or the smart way
@jobsworth tweeted the other day “Whenever I hear talk about business models, I am reminded of Peter Drucker’s wonderful cautionary words: People make shoes, not money” I would venture that it’s because the term “Business Model” today is mostly understood as “how to get paid”. I tweeted back “”Business Model” is mostly misused, re-read it [...]
Business Software is in need of some leaps and bounds!
Most business software is created to help you do what you do today, in the same manner, but hopefully better, faster, and with less effort. Efficiency is the siren call. But alas, the usefulness and ROI of upgrading have a…
Summer and all that
Been quiet for awhile now, and not because I’ve had a spot of vacation, quite the opposite. Delivery-time now, meaning programming, helping to build a new business model (and delivery using Thingamy of course) for a very interesting and ambitious…
Three types of GUIs – past, present and the future
There are three types of Graphical User Interfaces: First we had to interact with our early IT tools, as on our Apple IIs with Visicalc, then we had to face an ever increasing number of apps that made our screen…
SAPPHIRE Now – huge surprise, good stuff and a couple of important issues
I have to admit I went to Orlando and this year’s SAPPHIRE Now with lower than normal expectations. Boy was I surprised, and in a good way. Overall I found a turbocharged and far, far nimbler SAP. To the extent…
Plans, Budgets, Deadlines, not what you think
You know the stuff that makes the corporation hum and spin it’s wheels, the workflow mechanism, the process framework activities and not the value creation work per se: Plans, Budgets, Deadlines, Rules, Meetings, Reports… Are they as efficient as they…
