Ep. 04: The Price of Data

Businesses love the sound of automation, but often go about it with far too little thought and consideration. Today I talk about the conversations and steps that need to be done before you achieve automation success. 

ERP implementations aren't about automating everything, they're about providing tools for employees to work better. With employees playing such a large role, why wait until the end to include them? This episode I take a look at including employees to get a win for everybody. 

Open Source and Enterprise aren't often seen in the same sentence, so I take some time to look at the Odoo licensing model and some of the peculiarities that come with it. 

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Writing data is easy. You take in the information and put it away for future use. It’s remembering exactly what you wrote and where you put it that’s the challenge. Just like having to look for your keys as you try to rush out the door, getting that data quickly makes all the dif ... Show More

Fueled by the promise of concrete insights, organizations are increasingly prioritizing data in their decision-making processes. But that process can easily go wrong. Many leaders don’t understand that their decisions are only as good as how they interpret the data. In this episo ... Show More

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From the Sydney Opera House to a basic kitchen renovation there are thousands of examples of construction projects large and small which go horribly over budget.Professor Bent Flyvbjerg has compiled a database of 16,000 projects, and by his reckoning only 8.5% them meet their ini ... Show More

<p>On today’s show we’re talking about how to make sure the budget for a construction project has integrity. I regularly receive questions from new developers looking to grow from buy-hold investment into new construction. The first thing I ask for is to see their budget and the ... Show More