This article explores the issue about why SMEs should push towards automation with a strong sense of urgency. Ongoing inflationary pressures and negative demographic trends will put significant upwards pressures on costs (especially labor) and reduce margins. The best option is to use automation to increase the average productivity of labor.

This article explores the importance of institutionalizing knowledge in the firm. Moving to a data-centric approach to decision-making is a key step in institutionalizing knowledge held in the heads of employees, thereby helping to reduce Key Man Risk at the firm. More importantly, it allows the firm to share and build upon the existing body of knowledge, thereby paving the way for improvements in the efficiency of the decision-making process.

This article explores the new business opportunities that may arise from existing data that the company currently has. We are not referring to the business of simply selling the data to third parties but are referring to the actual creation of new real products and services that may leverage off the current data that the firm has. We discuss how to think about the opportunities available and how to best execute on these ideas.

T.his article explores differences in the support that SMEs typically require when they embark on their Transformation process, and compares them to the support that large companies require