Building FOTS solutions which integrate with operations has direct influence on your profits. If you need a quick reminder of what FOTS or Feet on the Street is, you can start here. What solution works best for your business and where to start? Approaching a build can be challenging but having built numerous solutions here are the major considerations …
50 days till Christmas is the total amount of days left yet how many working days are left in the year? How is your strategy coming? There are 38 working days left in the 2018 year. So before time turns the hands of the clock, now is the opportunity to review your strategy you wrote in January and see how …
Quality vs objections is the consideration of how quality highlights issues and objections must be overcome before things get better. This article examines the benefits that quality and quality reviews bring to your business. It also subsequently reviews the most common objections and suggests ways to handle objections you may encounter. The effect of quality is far more reaching than …
Skills vs version training is a key but vital difference in the modern approach to training. This article highlights the difference and how it affects you. Examining the key differences in how modern educators are taking a different focus to improve education not only professionally but also academically has an important consequence. A huge thank you to Kevin Shortall an immensely …
Multilingual solutions require some basic planning and some forethought but how to go about it? More important how far can you go until “it’s not worth it.” This article examines some of the simplest principles in multilingual coding and examines some of the planning considerations. There is no perfect, one size fits all solution. There are however good guiding principles …
Prototyping represents the ability to manifest your idea into a form that other people can understand. How do you convey your ideas? Its one thing to have an idea. Yet to find the confidence and convince others “this is going to work” is a very different business challenge. What software developers call “prototypes” marketing people call “test marketing”. As Philip …
SISP or Strategic Information Systems Planning is the process used by managers to figure out what IT systems they need. Yet how do you know what you don’t know? The solution is to use a combination of approaches to do some research and some creative thinking. By taking the output of these tools and reviewing the results, can help you turn …
Hype Cycle is a visualisation by Gartner which provides an insight into current ideas and their trending. Reading and interpreting the infographic can be a bit daunting at first. This article hopes to explain how to use them. As a game of “do I know what that means” hype cycles prove useful in sense checking if you’re up with the …
Centralisation, or centralization, offers a massive step forward to your business. How does a business go about it if its not already in place? Should you? With more and more businesses being held to account for not meeting compliance regulation how can you in your role help your business. The concept of centralisation is not new but from an IT …
Entrepreneur is a title used widely and with aspirational notions but when you live it what’s involved. It isn’t all pretty! If you have an idea that you want to make happen then this article is for you, no matter how big or how small the idea. Most people associate entrepreneurship with getting rich. Yes, if it works. However like …
