April 2022

Speaking in hieroglyphics

“Creation of a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure to host the new Business Intelligence services with outsourcing of IT Managed Services.” No, it’s not a hieroglyphic. It’s part of an IT services offer that a company owner has received. He forwarded it to me by mail asking me if I could review it for him. Which, basically, […]

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The IKEA effect

In 1989 I joined a company that had just launched a new computer system to manage travel bookings. In 2013 I left the company. And the same computer system was still handling travel bookings. 24 years. Obviously in IT, as in many other things, but more so in IT, 24 years is an eternity. How

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Unnecessary complications

I don’t understand why, but people really like to complicate their lives. At least with their businesses. And especially with businesses that are not yet up and running. The logical thing to do should be to go to the minimum to get started and, when it is up and running, to see what needs to

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I don’t have time to make time

I’ve just got off the phone and that humorous cartoon of a couple of Cro-Magnons sweating and pushing a trolley with square wheels stuck in the ground while saying to another one standing next to them with round wheels in his hand something like “No, thanks! We’re very busy”. I’m pretty sure you’ve seen it.

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Free consultancy

Twitter is usually a space for inconsequential messages, motivational quotes and people trying to convince others that they have the absolute truth. It is often difficult to filter out the people who provide something of value… or entertainment… or both. The truth is that in this virtual world of social networks, it seems that little

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