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“Copy-paste” is great. In fact, it’s probably the most widely used shortcut of any knowledge worker. It is the quick-and-easy way of teleporting data from one SaaS app to another in a couple of keystrokes. But if you copy and…

When you race to digitally transform, you need to pay attention to two high-level fundamental tasks: 1. Taking your core business - what you do today - and leveraging your technology to do it better, faster, cheaper, more efficiently. 2.…

At first glance, it’s an unlikely pairing: a 53-year-old German company and a youthful California startup. But when the two Chief Revenue Officers first got together to discuss a possible joint future, the opportunities for synergy were clear. It was…

In the movie Armageddon, when NASA learned there were only 18 days before a massive asteroid would destroy all life on Earth, it chose Bruce Willis (as Harry) to lead a mission to save the world. Against all odds, and…

What happens when you lose control of your data? You could download something from the web that is completely misinterpreted by data analysis, and you are earmarked as a troublemaker. This could affect your ability to rent an apartment or…

It fills you with excitement at the challenge and opportunity, and also apprehension at the inevitable disruption to your established ways of working. And the longer you put it off, the greater the pressure from your parents (read “SAP”) to…

A good workman never blames his tools for a bad job; so when the half-century old programming language COBOL got some unwarranted press lately, I thought I should look into it. Due to economic stimulus measures, government systems have seen…