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From “How do we keep this small enough to manage?” to “How big can we make it?” in 14 Days

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

From “How do we keep this small enough to manage?” to “How big can we make it?” in 14 Days

From a Problem to a Product SecuriCage started with a problem close to home. After having security equipment vandalised, its founder went looking for a practical way to protect equipment mounted outsi...

Business Process Inventory Management Market Analysis

Aug 24, 2026

How Integrated Business Systems Made a New Product Profitable Before It Reached Scale

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

How Integrated Business Systems Made a New Product Profitable Before It Reached Scale

Better Information, Lower Costs and a More Manageable Flock Managing a flock of 650 sheep spread across different fields creates a costly problem when communicable disease is discovered. The farmer ne...

Business Process Market Analysis Product Development

Jul 31, 2026

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

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

From Field to Platform: How Hatton Locks Helped Build a GPS Livestock Tracking Business from the Ground Up

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

From Field to Platform: How Hatton Locks Helped Build a GPS Livestock Tracking Business from the Ground Up

The Problem & The Brief Sheep farming is a business of thin margins and hard variables. Weather, disease, predation, theft, any one of them can turn a profitable season into a loss. And yet, for most ...

Business Process Market Analysis Product Development

May 1, 2026