Guest Contributors

Pets vs Cattle 2.0: An Analogy and Approach for Modern Infrastructures
Pets vs. cattle is an analogy with modest beginnings that has grown into an industry staple. A simple Google search will spawn more than four million results and a myriad of developer memes. Although origin stories are a little hazy, the actual, original quote was ‘cattle, not pets.’
How ERP can help create a sustainable future
am going through an awakening, a realisation. This is no sudden flash of light on the staycation road to Norfolk, but a gradual, stumbling focus on how I and the club to which I belong – ‘ERPers’ - can play a part in the major challenge the world faces: global warming and the need to cut emissions.
Workday vs. ServiceNow: The Big Shift
Every decade there’s a major shift in enterprise software. In the 1970s companies bought integrated financial systems; in the 1980s and 1990s it was ERP; now it’s a wild west of tools for digital customer experiences, digital employee experiences, and AI-enabled automation
The key HR solutions enterprises need to consider
Technology has kept many businesses running throughout the rollercoaster ride that has made up the last 16 or so months. Technology has helped employees stay productive and connected regardless of their working locations.
Under par and counting my blessings
It is hard to believe that we are approaching a year since the first lockdown due to the pandemic. In many ways it has felt like forever and in other ways it has flown by – a year of working from home, looking out the window of my home office and still scratching my head and wondering if this is just a dream.
How to embrace organisational agility
COVID-19 forced businesses to make decisions about leadership, recruitment, finance and operations in a matter of hours. In the months following the initial shockwave...
Common Digital Transformation Myths Debunked
Using more than 1,000 enterprise cloud implementation reviews of SAP, UNIT4, Oracle HCM, Workday, UKG, ServiceNow and Cornerstone, Raven Intel debunks six common...
Three lessons now the future of work is reality
13th March. A date etched in my memory. Not because it’s a birthday or anniversary. Rather...
IBP is key to post COVID supply chains
While organisations need more visibility, modelling and planning than ever before, what are...
Third-party support: not just about money
The role of IT should be primarily about serving the business: providing the necessary infrastructure...
Retail 2.5
Imagine a world where everything that you assumed as ‘business as usual’ just stopped. Really... just stopped...
Driven by disruption
Originally put forward in a Harvard Business Review piece in 1995 by Bower and Christensen...
Supply chains post Covid-19
Supply chains for complex and costly products are always in a state of flux. But massive changes to...
Accelerating your Survival Strategy
It is not entirely accurate to compare all of the economic impacts of the 2008 financial crisis to the...
Pressing restart – how businesses can recover and get back to work
Throughout the period of lockdown, many organisations have found digital services indispensable...
Heart of War
The best military and commercial strategists are considering questions of long-term legitimacy...
Taking the plunge in lockdown…
When I started the journey that led me to move organisations, I had many concerns on my mind. Am I the right fit?
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