Insights

Practical writing on operations, systems and data.

Short, opinionated pieces for owners and leadership teams thinking carefully about how their organisation runs. Educational, not promotional.

Operations

Choosing the right customer-flow system: walk-ins, queues and bookings

Most local-service operators are choosing between three different shapes of customer flow without naming them. Naming them is half the decision.

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Systems

What makes a small-business website that actually works

Beyond looks: the one job the site has to do, and what to stop spending time on until that job is done.

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Strategy

Owning your systems versus renting your operations

Why stacking subscriptions feels cheap until it isn't, and how to think about ownership of the layer your business actually runs on.

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Data

What good operational data actually looks like

A short, opinionated guide to single source of truth, useful dashboards and the difference between numbers that decide and numbers that decorate.

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Systems

Buy, build, or integrate? Choosing the right operational system

A practical decision framework for SMEs weighing off-the-shelf software, a bespoke build, or integration of what they already have.

7 min readRead
Operations

When a growing business outgrows its spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are the most useful piece of software ever written — until they quietly become the operation itself. Here's how to tell when that's happened, and what to do next.

6 min readRead

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