Productivity and workflows
You open the task list on a Tuesday morning, and the screen is a wall of red text. Out of twenty active items, fifteen carry a tag that says "urgent",...
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Systems and tools
Walk into the main office of an installation company on a Tuesday morning, and you will see a large screen on the wall displaying the daily schedule. The...
Productivity and workflows
It is Friday afternoon. The office is quietening down, but you have a blank spreadsheet open on your screen. You need to know how the week went, what got...
Team leadership
You close the office door to finally review the quarterly numbers in peace. Three minutes later, a colleague knocks to ask if they can spend forty euros on...
Productivity and workflows
You sit down at your desk on a Tuesday morning, and your calendar is already a solid block of colour. There is a quick sync at nine, a project update at...
Digitalisation and efficiency
You sit at your desk on a Tuesday morning and approve the second monthly invoice for your new software. You open a new tab, log into the dashboard, and look...
Rollout and everyday use
A system does not get good because everything is switched on. The real question in the first weeks is what you take out and what you keep.
Rollout and everyday use
The answers exist, they are just not written down, so the same two people keep getting interrupted. What an internal wiki changes, and what it does not.
Productivity and workflows
A board is worth having when there is a point in the week where somebody waits for somebody else. What keeps one alive, and when you do not need one at all.
Rollout and everyday use
Four different things travel on the same channel, which is why decisions get lost. What changes when the conversation sits next to the work it is about.
Systems and tools
Your company already runs on something. Not a CRM and not an ERP, but the system your work, your customers and your decisions actually run on.
Digitalisation and efficiency
The expensive part is not the development. It is finding out in month six that you specified the wrong thing, and LEAN and MVP move that discovery forward.
Team leadership
Every team goes through the same stages. Knowing which one you are in tells you what kind of leadership the next few weeks need.
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.
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.
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