Insights Beyond the Project

Business lessons, leadership perspectives, and real-life experiences about building better organizations, and becoming better along the way.

Sometimes we begin something believing we are building it, only to discover it is building us.

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When a Spreadsheet Is Still the Right Answer

Plenty of businesses have replaced a working spreadsheet with something slower and called it progress. Four questions that decide it properly.

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The system usually works fine. The problem is that nobody agreed what it was for. How to decide, test and roll one out narrowly.

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Either the decision gets made after one good demo, or it turns into a nine month evaluation. A middle path that takes about three weeks.

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Buy, build, or leave it alone. The third option gets skipped most often and is frequently the right one. A practical way to decide.