Today I’m wrapping up a series of posts on the broad topic of Enterprise System Pitfalls. In this series, my hope was to help shed light on the primary problems that cause us to miss budgets, fall short on capabilities, …
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The biggest enemy to any system is complexity. In a system of inputs and outputs, such as an enterprise system, more complexity means more parts are used in interaction with inputs to create the outputs. Every part that must be …
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In this fourth post in my series on Enterprise System Pitfalls, I’m going to discuss a conceptually difficult topic called Implicit Dependencies. I reiterate to my R&D team all the time that complexity is our number one enemy, and that …
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I continue with the third part in my series on enterprise system pitfalls and now discuss the problem of what I call the infrastructure imbalance. I have two previous posts that introduce the topic of pitfalls of enterprise systems and …
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Today I continue my series on enterprise system pitfalls and discuss the problem of over abstraction. Be sure to read my previous post which lays the foundation for this series. Abstraction has long been a concept of computer science, and …
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Are we getting the economic return we should be with new technology innovation? In this article, I’m starting a series reflecting on common weaknesses in enterprise systems development, and am going to try to unpack as concisely as I can …
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We recently sat down with our President, Mark Loyd, to discuss all things relating to technology and the hospitality industry. What is your background within both the hospitality and technology industry? All of my professional experience is related to hospitality …
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