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Why Businesses Fail Despite Strong Sales, and How to Turn Them Around

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

Why Businesses Fail Despite Strong Sales, and How to Turn Them Around

A useful business with something to lose We won’t name the company here, but let’s call it Dataful. If you have ever started typing your address at an online checkout and selected the right one from a...

Business Process E-Commerce Product Development Small Business

Oct 13, 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

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

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

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

A Little Light That Changed Everything: What the Blue LED Teaches Us About Innovation

Hatton Locks Business Systems, Andre Venter

A Little Light That Changed Everything: What the Blue LED Teaches Us About Innovation

A World Lit by Tiny Lights The screen you're reading this on, its clarity, its colour, the way it adjusts to light and renders a thousand tones, is powered by one of the smallest, most quietly transfo...

Business Process 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