Recently, I have sat in a few meetings with clients talking about the cloud and had a little chuckle when they told me that they don’t use the cloud and that their business probably isn’t ready for the cloud just yet.
Recently, I have sat in a few meetings with clients talking about the cloud and had a little chuckle when they told me that they don’t use the cloud and that their business probably isn’t ready for the cloud just yet.
The concept of utilising scenarios as a method for visioning future events can be traced back to the writings of Plato’s Republic. Since the days of Plato, the use of
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In a previous blog, we discussed just why Excel is now a liability to your budget, planning, and management reporting process, including providing an example to illustrate this fact. As
Imagine a successful and growing organisation who have used an Excel model to construct their annual budget plan for many years. However, in the past 18 months the business operations
As with virtually any other significant IT implementation project, a SharePoint deployment is as dependant on people as it is on technology for its success.
The good old 80/20 rule: 20% of what we do produces 80% of our outcomes. In a business context then, it is critical that the 20% effort is right; that
When teams within an organisation operate in siloes, the effects can be detrimental to the business. It results in gaps, inefficiencies, and lost productivity. Substantial effort is put in to
After many years in consulting, I am still surprised to find that even organisations with sophisticated transactional forecasting and supply chain capabilities still rely on spreadsheets for their final mile
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