Technology Strategy for SMBs
Practical guides to help you make the next decision with confidence.
26 guides
10 Signs Your Business Has Outgrown Excel
Ten concrete signs a spreadsheet has stopped being a safe way to run part of your business, and what to check before you decide to replace it.
How to Create a Technology Roadmap for Your Business
A practical method for building a technology roadmap that sequences investments by value, effort and dependency instead of by whoever asks loudest.
Is WhatsApp Becoming Your Unofficial Business Software?
How to tell when WhatsApp has quietly become your system of record for orders and approvals, and how to fix that without banning the app.
How Much Is Disconnected Software Costing Your Business?
No universal figure exists for what disconnected software costs. Build your own baseline from duplicate entry, errors and delayed decisions.
Custom Software vs Off-the-Shelf Software: Which Should You Choose?
A decision framework for choosing between custom, packaged and configurable software, with lifecycle costs and a hybrid option worth considering.
How to Choose the Right Software Development Company
A practical vendor evaluation process: what brief to prepare, what evidence to request, and how to compare unequal quotes before you commit.
What to Include in a Software Requirement Document
The sections a software requirement document actually needs: objectives, workflows, data and integrations, non-functional needs, and change control.
How to Prioritise Software Features Based on Business Value
A method for prioritising software features by measurable problem, value, risk and effort, so decisions don’t default to whoever asked most recently.
Questions to Ask Before Starting a Software Project
The questions that turn a vague software idea into a clear go or no-go decision, covering problem, users, budget, ownership and support.
How to Calculate the ROI of Business Software
A method for modelling software ROI: set a baseline, include every real cost, estimate benefits with stated assumptions, and track actual results.
Zoho vs Custom Software: When Zoho, Odoo, Vyapar, Marg or Busy Is the Right Choice
When a ready product like Zoho, Odoo, Vyapar, Marg or Busy is the right choice for your business, and when custom software is worth it.
When Should Your Business Move from Spreadsheets to Software?
A spreadsheet works until several people, rules and records depend on it. Five tests that show when a business should move to software, and when to wait.
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- 10 Signs Your Business Has Outgrown Excel
- How to Create a Technology Roadmap for Your Business
- Is WhatsApp Becoming Your Unofficial Business Software?
- How Much Is Disconnected Software Costing Your Business?
- Custom Software vs Off-the-Shelf Software: Which Should You Choose?
- How to Choose the Right Software Development Company
- What to Include in a Software Requirement Document
- How to Prioritise Software Features Based on Business Value
- Questions to Ask Before Starting a Software Project
- How to Calculate the ROI of Business Software
- Zoho vs Custom Software: When Zoho, Odoo, Vyapar, Marg or Busy Is the Right Choice
- When Should Your Business Move from Spreadsheets to Software?
- Build, buy or configure: how to cost each route fairly
- What a software proposal leaves out: licences, migration and support
- BRD, PRD and functional specification: what each one is for
- Stalled software project: what to check before the next payment
- How to restate three software quotations on one scope
- When the right answer is not to build software at all
- How to review why a software purchase failed before buying again
- Vendor sales engineer or independent consultant: whose advice to trust
- What a fractional CTO does for a small business
- Software project risk register: a template with owners
- Big IT services company or small software firm: which to choose
- How to choose an IT services partner: a checklist
- Offshore or onshore software development: how to decide
- In-house team or outsourced development: how to decide