Unlocking An Agile Accounting House
With technology hurtling headlong into all aspects of life, from our homes, cars and workplaces, to banks, schools and hospitals, it’s no...
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IDU NEWS
Mar 14, 20183 min read
The modern day alchemist: Turning busy into time
Peter Drucker, the management consultant that coined the phrase “knowledge worker” back in 1959, nailed it when he said: “Time is the...
Feb 27, 20182 min read
Building an entrepreneurial culture
Last year this time I wrote that you should take an entrepreneurial view of your organisation and start experimenting and breaking stuff....
Feb 13, 20183 min read
In 2018, consider the cost of doing nothing
Depending on your outlook, my column last month would either have exhilarated or terrified you. And whether you are champing at the bit,...
Jan 24, 20185 min read
A Heavy Price Tag on Doing Nothing – Part 2
Today, doing nothing is going to cost you in the long run. Fight inertia by learning its tell-tale signs and what to do about them ‘The...
Jan 16, 20183 min read
End-of-year reviews: Pass me my crystal ball
End-of-year reviews used to make sense. They are a bit of a chore, but ultimately useful, and, if things have gone well during the year,...
Dec 18, 20175 min read
A Heavy Price Tag on Doing Nothing
The business world is a bewildering, fast-moving place right now. But don’t fall into the trap of bunkering down and doing nothing,...
Dec 7, 20172 min read
Give Inertia the Boot
Have you noticed that problems are solved and decisions are made differently today, especially by millennials? What’s the first thing...
Nov 8, 20173 min read
Spreadsheets: a victim of their own success?
There is so much talk of digital disruption today, that it is easy to forget that one of the most significant disruptors of them all has...
Oct 17, 20173 min read
Expense management: Honing the double-edged sword
Ironically, growth and success can be a double-edged sword for small and medium-sized businesses. On the one hand, you’re growing and...
Sep 26, 20172 min read
What is the new normal?
There’s no doubt that the last 12 months have got most people muttering, ‘Well, truth is stranger than fiction, after all.’ It’s easy to...
Sep 7, 20173 min read
When your normal is change then change is opportunity
It’s easy to get disruption fatigue when literally every article you read reminds you that digital disruption is here, and that if you...
Aug 30, 20173 min read
Holy cow, the robots are coming!
Back in the day, when I set out on some of my first auditing jobs, I was accompanied by a formidable team of comptometrists. Their...
Aug 1, 20173 min read
Digital Darwinism: it’s still adapt or die
Charles Darwin was right about survival depending on our ability to adapt. And never has this been more true than in the face of the...
Jul 12, 20172 min read
Lockdown Time Thieves
In my May article I suggested that one of the biggest challenges to innovation and business progress is simply finding the time to think,...
Jul 3, 20173 min read
The storm on the horizon for cloud computing
Like the wheel or the printing press, cloud computing is more exciting because of what it enables, rather than for its own sake. Much has...
Jun 22, 20172 min read
IDU in Gartner’s Top 25 Corporate Planning Applications
Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory company recently published their Market Guide for Corporate Planning Applications. ...
Jun 6, 20173 min read
Upsides and pitfalls of financial system migrations
The Apple iPad is only seven years old this year. Believe it or not, the first one was launched in April 2010, and if you dig a first...
May 30, 20173 min read
How running to standstill won’t get you ahead of the pack
Ask anyone how they are nowadays, and the answer is likely to be ‘crazy busy’ or something along those lines. Today’s world, designed...
May 8, 20171 min read
CRAN highly recommends IDU
CRAN is the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia and regulates telecommunication services and networks, broadcasting services,...
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