Can we ever return to normal? 3-Things that won't The world has changed - there's no doubt about it. We may not have become accustomed to it, but "social distancing" has become the phrase of 2020 along with "self-isolation" and "stay at home". We a... PoV
Crisitunity! When told that the Chinese have the same word for Crisis and Opportunity, Homer Simpson exclaims " You're right, Crisitunity [1] ". We know better than to listen to the wisdom of this particular Ho... PoV
Good Intentions Don’t Work - Mechanisms Do "Good intentions never work, you need good mechanisms to make anything happen." — Jeff Bezos of Amazon Previous Next Good intentions don’t work. They make us feel better for a short with p... PoV
Excel is Pain in the Proverbial - Part 4 Despite all of the great efforts of the team, we still found people reverting back to the old Excel sheets. Why? Although we had completed the technical part of the project, we had neglected the peo... Excel
Excel is Pain in the Proverbial - Part 3 We had the fields, we had the data in spreadsheets, we had different spellings and formats. So now began the most important job, making sure we didn't just create the same mess in Odoo. So we cleans... Excel
Excel is Pain in the Proverbial - Part 2 We started by reviewing all of the spreadsheets we were using every day - not the ad-hoc 'let me create a quick table to add this up' type of spreadsheet - just those that we update and use to track t... Excel
Excel is Pain in the Proverbial - Part 1 Microsoft has done a great job in recent years of improving the user experience in Office 365. So good in fact that it seems to have given new impetus for users to try and use it for everything. Tru... Excel
