Systems and tools
Five signs, and none of them depends on which software you run. Plus the three situations that look exactly like this but are not.
Internal system for SMEs
How a small company actually works
Writing about what happens when the spreadsheet outgrows itself, what it costs to enter the same data three times, and what really goes wrong when a system is rolled out.
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Team leadership
A few practices that genuinely help a team work together, and a few that only cost you an afternoon.
Systems and tools
Excel is a precise tool for calculation, but not for keeping records. Four concrete limits of the spreadsheet, and what to move out of it first.
Systems and tools
When off-the-shelf is enough, and what you give up in return. Plus a third answer that is neither of the two extremes.
Systems and tools
Subscriptions are the visible part. Double entry and the price of moving never arrive as a bill, and you pay them anyway.
Digitalisation and efficiency
Three months in there is something to look back at. A year in you can see what repeats. Two years in the company becomes transferable.
Digitalisation and efficiency
The bar for what counts as normal has moved, and not because anyone fell behind. It sits in four places, all of them outside your company.
Systems and tools
Five good tools still do not add up to a way of working. There is a half-minute test for whether your company runs on a system or on a pile of apps.
Systems and tools
It is not the wrong tool that slows you down. It is the distance between them. Where the day goes when work lives in four places.
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