Software – a destination or a journey?
I think it’s safe to say cloud software is now firmly embedded in our personal and business lives. Even before the pandemic things were changing – and the last two years have moved things forward in ways and at a speed I don’t think we could have begun to imagine.
Migration
Do you know where you’re going to?
Migration – there has to be a reason for it. And that reason has to be to make an improvement.
Why would you do it otherwise?
Who’s afraid of the big bad upgrade?
I was! I had to get a new phone recently, I managed to drop mine and shattered the screen, and there was no point replacing it, I was out of contract anyway but had moved to SIM only and had been putting off changing – it was a good phone, it did the job. But […]
Music To My Ears
‘Since we moved to Xero we haven’t used any spreadsheets’. Making any change has to be for a reason – there needs to be a benefit, something worth going through the disruption for. There can be many different reasons for moving to Xero but one of the most compelling is the accessibility of the data […]
Lessons Learnt From Sailing Part 3 – Preparation or Failure?
Part of the safety briefing when I sail is the 3 Fs – fire, flood and falling overboard. Any one of those events could be disastrous, especially with an inexperienced crew on board who are more likely to panic if things start to go wrong. We go through the drill as to what to do […]
Cloud Reflections Part 2
There has been plenty of talk about the growth of machine learning and artificial intelligence and yes, accountancy is one of the professions earmarked to be the dinosaur of the 21st century, heading for extinction. But on its own technology doesn’t deliver the full picture; it enables different working practices – more efficient, cost effective […]
Cloud Reflections – Part 1
Last year I wrote a blog triggered by my brother’s wedding anniversary. 30 years earlier he had married an American girl, and it got me thinking about the way in which the world had changed and technology has impacted every one of us in our professional and personal lives. We made the journey from the […]
