Things worth knowing before you spend money.
Short, plain-language notes on the decisions businesses get wrong when they buy or build software. No gated downloads and nothing to sign up for.
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Five questions to ask before you buy any business software
Most bad software decisions are made before anyone sees a demo. These are the questions that would have prevented them.
Read itOperationsHow to tell when your spreadsheet has become a liability
Spreadsheets are excellent tools that quietly turn into single points of failure. These are the signs it has happened to yours.
Read itDigital transformationWhy good systems get quietly abandoned
The system works. The training happened. Six months later everyone is back on the spreadsheet. Here is what usually went wrong.
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