by Gabriele Albarosa | Oct 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
The main business processes for every large organization are well supported by the core IT systems. Outside those systems employees are using thousands of spreadsheets for organizing information and simple business processes. Between the core IT systems and simple...
by Gabriele Albarosa | Sep 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Everyone loves a good spreadsheet. Unless you are careful your favourite spreadsheet can transform from ‘good’ into a spreadsheet beast. What is a spreadsheet beast? Spreadsheets grow gradually. Whenever you add more data, exceptions, different ways of looking at the...
by Gabriele Albarosa | Aug 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
The software industry is maturing. Over the last decade: We learned that agile, iterative approaches are far more successful than driving software development from a requirements document. We learned how to engage users during development. Users have become much more...
by Gabriele Albarosa | Jul 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
IKEA revolutionised the way we think about furniture. Today, if your problem is: “where do I store my stuff?” all you need is a flat pack, your car, an allen key, and an instruction booklet. Before IKEA you needed lots of time and money, or you had to make...
by Gabriele Albarosa | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Avoid Data Errors and Data Cleansing The importance of high quality data is obvious. But is data cleansing really necessary? Surely, the obvious way to improve data quality is to prevent incorrect data entering your system in the first place. Seems obvious, right? So...
