by Gavin Halse | Mar 1, 2016 | Technical Leadership
Product companies have the unenviable challenge to constantly optimise a complex blend of products and services with the imperative to remain profitable. Frequently the demands of day to day operations dominate and dilute efforts to be innovating around new products....
by Gavin Halse | Feb 1, 2016 | Technical Leadership
At some stage in the growth of an information company, it may be necessary to grow by merger or acquisition. Acquisitions can rapidly add to underlying business growth by virtue of scale. With the increasing scale of operations the fixed costs associated with shared...
by Gavin Halse | Jan 1, 2016 | Technical Leadership
As engineers and technical specialists, we tend to regard technological trends in terms of the physical and virtual world. So, for example, when we consider the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, SAAS, big data, and so on, our natural response is immediately to focus on...
by Gavin Halse | Dec 1, 2015 | Technical Leadership
There is a great post on Harvard Business Review by Vijay Govindarajan and Jatin Desai regarding the nature of innovation in organisations. The message aligns very closely with my own experience with software products. Organisations tend to focus on building short...
by Gavin Halse | Nov 1, 2015 | IT in Manufacturing
The computerisation of manufacturing as encapsulated in “Industrie 4.0”, or the so-called “fourth industrial revolution” is attracting attention by manufacturing decision-makers who find their companies increasingly part of the global supply chain. Industrie 4.0 fact...
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