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Conversations with Your ERP System: What If You Could Ask Your Business Anything?

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

Conversations with Your ERP System: What If You Could Ask Your Business Anything?

Conversations with Your ERP System What would you ask if you could have a conversation with your entire business, and receive the answers before the meeting ended? “How profitable were our service con...

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Resource Planning Small Business

Jul 25, 2026

From Market Intelligence to Revenue: A Client-Acquisition Operating System for Marketing Agencies

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

From Market Intelligence to Revenue: A Client-Acquisition Operating System for Marketing Agencies

Turning a target market into something operational The strategy may define the target market precisely: medium-sized manufacturers in particular regions, operating with a certain level of complexity a...

Enterprise Resource Planning Marketing Technology Small Business

Jul 19, 2026

The New Architecture of Online Services in an AI enabled world.

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

The New Architecture of Online Services in an AI enabled world.

Technology Innovates. Markets and Strategy Evolve Through Standards. Innovation creates new possibilities. Standards determine which of those possibilities become practical, interoperable and widely a...

Accounting Software Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Resource Planning

Jul 12, 2026

The Greatest Value of ERP isn't Automation.

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

The Greatest Value of ERP isn't Automation.

Implementing an ERP system Won't Save Your Business. But It Might Help You Save It Yourself If you're reading this while your business is under pressure, you're probably hoping that the right software...

Business Analysis Business Process Enterprise Resource Planning

Jul 7, 2026 Insights

MCP, What is it and why is it important?

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

MCP, What is it and why is it important?

MCP: The Interface Between AI and Software Artificial intelligence is already part of everyday business. Software vendors are increasingly competing on how effectively their products use AI, and users...

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Resource Planning Small Business

Jun 22, 2026 Insights

Product Leadership and the Design of Coherent Systems

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

Product Leadership and the Design of Coherent Systems

Ideas Are Everywhere, Execution Lives in Culture If you spend enough time in product organisations, a pattern appears repeatedly: the belief that ideas are scarce and that innovation begins with a mom...

Business Analysis Business Process Product Development

May 25, 2026 Insights

What Changes AI might Drive in the IT Technical Services Industry

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

What Changes AI might Drive in the IT Technical Services Industry

The Beginning of a Shift in Systems Integration For most of the modern systems integration era, technical implementation skill has been the industry’s primary currency. The engineer who understood the...

Artificial Intelligence Business Process Market Analysis

May 16, 2026 Insights

Less Jet Engine Than You'd Hope

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

Less Jet Engine Than You'd Hope

A Country Without a Domestic Airline There is a version of this project that exists only in the imagination of a younger, more optimistic person. It involves standing on an apron somewhere, watching a...

Business Process Market Analysis Product Development

May 12, 2026

Clarity before Consequences: Why Formalised Decision Quality Matters

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

Clarity before Consequences: Why Formalised Decision Quality Matters

Introduction: Why Decision Quality Matters In business, we often fall into a comforting but dangerous habit: assuming that a good outcome means we made a good decision. If the deal closes, the product...

Business Analysis Business Process Market Analysis

May 11, 2026 Insights

When Systems Become Strategy: Building Revenue Architecture From the Ground Up

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

When Systems Become Strategy: Building Revenue Architecture From the Ground Up

The Business Problem Every business reaches a point where its systems stop keeping up with its ambitions. Not dramatically, there's rarely a single moment of failure. It happens gradually: a workaroun...

Business Analysis Business Process Marketing Technology Small Business

May 10, 2026

How Blockchain, IoT, BIM and a software platform was ready to optimise the Construction Industry in the Netherlands

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

How Blockchain, IoT, BIM and a software platform was ready to optimise the Construction Industry in the Netherlands

Understanding the Challenge "That's not quite how it happened." It's a phrase you hear on construction projects when two versions of the same event don't quite match, a delivery that was recorded but ...

Business Analysis Business Process Product Development

May 10, 2026

The Development of a Medical Emergency Alert Product, and Why We Chose to Develop a Smartwatch

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

The Development of a Medical Emergency Alert Product, and Why We Chose to Develop a Smartwatch

Building the Value of Reassurance Designing a watch that quietly connected lives, care, and systems It started, as many ideas do, with a simple question: What’s the value of knowing someone you care f...

Market Analysis Product Development

May 1, 2026

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