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Category: Service
One less thing to worry about: A robot apocalypse
Should you be worried about robots stealing your job? ‘Robots’ are an emotive epithet; is this just a continuation of a theme of efficiency driven by technology?
The many reasons spreadsheets are not your friends
People love spreadsheets. They’re a comforting way to push data around and track changes. BUT, there are many reasons why spreadsheets don’t work beyond the most basic of use cases. Here’s why we shouldn’t be afraid to shake off the limitations of spreadsheets and move towards a database structure.
“Training Issue” + “User Error” = Bad System Design
‘It’s a training issue’. ‘I’m afraid it’s user error’. We hear these justifications frequently in a customer service environment when something goes wrong. But how often should we really be attributing ‘user error’ to bad system design? Whilst it might be idealistic to say that the right system can design-out all propensity for error, it’s […]
The Death of a Spreadsheet
You wouldn’t use a calculator to do a job for a spreadsheet (or vice versa, assuming you have a calculator to hand). By extension, with the wealth of technology solutions available to business today, why do we continue to rely so heavily on spreadsheets?