Forty years. I'll be honest, it's more than a little hard to believe. Forty years has gone by blazingly quickly. I'm deeply grateful for the clients who've trusted us with this work. The ones who took a chance in the early days, when the technology and systems were new and the outcomes weren't guaranteed. And the ones who are still with us today, relying on systems we built together to run...
Edyta used to spend half her day battling with her company’s systems just to complete basic tasks. Today, from her role as production coordinator, she practically runs the place. She was already the smartest person in the company, what changed wasn't her intelligence or training. What changed was her software. It conformed to established company processes, which conformed to the thinking of...
I’ve been advocating custom software over commodity software for decades. But, I get this question a lot: how do we even start building our own software? Most business owners are immediately overwhelmed at the very thought. Learned over 35 years: start where it hurts the most. You don't have to build everything today and you don't have to automate all your processes tomorrow. Start where the...
You're paying every month for a platform that barely fits. For modules you’ll never use. The crappy UI makes your teams revert to spreadsheets. The "customizations" break during updates. And more customization makes things worse.Here's the hard truth that took me 35 years to learn:With commodity enterprise software, you don't buy solutions, you rent constraints. Constraints that you keep...
There’s a growing frustration I hear repeatedly from clients and prospective clients: “We spent months and millions implementing enterprise software and nada. Everyone’s frustrated, the data’s a mess, we’re still working in spreadsheets, and the consultants can’t even give us a solid completion date.” Sounds familiar? You’re not alone. It’s an enigma that vexes many companies: The...