Virtual reality, augmented reality, “deep fake”, “generative AI”… technology blurs the lines and seems to be challenging the foundations of our understanding of the world. If an image generated artificially in a few seconds seems as real as a shot taken by a professional photographer, what can we still trust? I have no desire to…
In today’s organisations, it’s hard to imagine daily life without spreadsheets (I’ll let you replace this generic term with the name of your favourite software). For the record, the first spreadsheet (Visicalc) was launched in 1979. For the price of a pocket calculator, this software enabled the microcomputer to free itself from the confines of…
Process automation tools are a dime a dozen these days. Often presented as “cloud” or “software as a service” applications, they can simplify or eliminate tasks that are often performed in spreadsheets using good old-fashioned “copy and paste”. When an organisation considers digitising its processes, the cost of licences or subscriptions for the new solution…