Ideas, insights, and opinion on technology for small business.
Lawhive, Corgi and Eilla didn't out-feature their industries' software: they skipped it and did the job themselves. Here's how to tell which of your own SaaS bets are exposed to the same move.
VRIO is a test you can run on your own data, not a framework for judging the market. Most businesses that think they hold a data asset fail on Rare or Organised, not Valuable, and only one of those two is something you can fix.
If the cost of writing code keeps falling, the case for patiently maintaining it falls with it. Following that logic changes what your business should actually be protecting.
Regulated organisations often read 'our data cannot leave the building' as a blanket no to AI. It is not: it rules out one dependency, not the technology, and there is a real difference between the two.
A consultant advises and leaves. A fractional leader shows up for a slice of every week, forever. An interim CTO is neither: full-time, until the gap that needs filling is closed.
A vendor sits across the table from a 50-person business and says the technology is out of date. The fix, naturally, is theirs: a migration, a platform, a two-year programme with the word "cloud" in the title. The founder nods, because "modern" has come
