The Macca’s Cheeseburger Analogy: Simple Promises in the Software World Nothing hits the spot like a midnight Macca’s Cheeseburger on the way home after a big night. Anywhere in the world, there’s no mystery, no surprise, just a munchies-satisfying sugar and cholesterol spike to soak-up your last jangling coins [...]
Robots: A Traffic Light Analogy Yep, that’s what we call Traffic Lights in South Africa. Robots. Automatons that operate reliably, consistently, and tirelessly. Timing their change to my arrival; leaving me fuming as I sit and wait for the pre-programmed sequence to determine how late I’m invariably going to [...]
The Tearing Sense of Isolation I’ve lost connection. I’ve only got 3G. I’ve run out of space. Yes, it’s no longer a phone, a device, or even my iPhone. It’s me. I’m sitting in the Knoll Ridge Café, on Mount Ruapehu, the highest coffee shop in New Zealand. It [...]
ERP in the 90's I first learnt the term ERP in the mid 90’s when the company I was with implemented SAP. ERP meant a lot of different things to different people, for the customer it often meant a massive investment with an anticipated lengthy implementation. For the consulting [...]
Overview The power to accelerate collaborative processes is deeply misunderstood, so I will use an example to clarify. Sally from Accounts Payable scans the consulting invoice. Paul checks the original contract, reviews the project timesheets and contacts the supplier for clarification of charges. John completes a purchase requisition form, [...]
Growing up, my father and brother would argue over which business function was more important: Engineering (in my brother’s opinion) or Finance (my Dad’s). This proved to make my personal career choice hard – designing and building cool stuff or providing the resources to do it. I still wish [...]
My brother, an engineer, calculated the value of his leisure time: He figured he worked hard to enjoy himself, so his basic equation was to simply take his daily salary and divide it by his personal time - which after sleeping, commuting, working, eating and chores is about 4hrs [...]
SAP Users We’ve all had personal experiences with “usability”. A watch I purchased a few years ago seemed perfect for my needs, it could manage multiple time zones seemingly making it easy for travel and keeping tabs of country-specific times. However, I found that every time we shifted from [...]
Introduction: Consolidating Approval Tasks with OneList Approvals SYDNEY, NSW, April 27, 2015 – IQX Business Solutions today announced that OneList Approvals 3.8 has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. OneList Approvals 3.8 integrates with SAP® Gateway technology to consolidate all SAP and non-SAP approval [...]
The Apple Watch is Finally Here The Apple Watch is finally available for pre-order on Friday, 10th April. My eldest son can’t wait and at every opportunity extols all the great features of the latest Apple (almost guaranteed to be) blockbuster product. Not that he’s quite committed to spending [...]
