Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Benefits of ERP systems First of all What are ERP systems The acronym traditionally stood for "Enterprise Resource Planning", but in a nutshell what it gives you is a single integrated system for handling business administra... 12 Nov 2025 Software
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Economic Reconfiguration I don't play a lot of video games, but when I do it should come as no surprise that it will generally be strategy games. What inspired me to write this article was the game Victoria 3, which is set in... 11 Nov 2025 Economics
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Margins and investment Some companies make better investments than others. One of the main signals to look for is the margins they operate on. Compare for example, a software company with a hairdressers. WARNING, there will... 11 Nov 2025 Economics
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Demand is not price Not sure if you remember these things: which at the height of the NFT craze were changing hands upwards of $344,000 USD. At the time of writing you can pick them up for around $20,000 - and bear in mi... 9 Nov 2025 Economics
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Why Agile Projects Fail We've all been through the cycle. Horrendous "waterfall" project management, with insane deadlines, endless crunching, overtime, stress, mistakes everywhere, only to finish up with a sub-standard prod... 6 Nov 2025 Software
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Be careful listening to people on the internet Work hard, not smart. That's what they always say. Of course what they mean by that, is what I call the "inefficient engine metaphor". If I have an engine that is running at a measly 4 miles per gallo... 5 Nov 2025 Strategy
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Why you are stressed Overworked? Procrastinating? We've all been there. It took me 4 weeks just to write this article :D Just kidding, I bashed this out in 20 minutes because I'm a fundamentally better person than you are... 4 Nov 2025 Strategy
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Treat Your Relationships Like a Stock Portfolio Exchange is a two-way-street Often people are encouraged to think about ways in which they can offer value to others, but sometimes we need to think more deeply about the value other people are provid... 3 Nov 2025 Strategy
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak How to beat life Life is repetitive Very repetitive. You eat breakfast probably hundreds of times a year, drink coffee every day, go to the bathroom over and over again. This is probably the thousandth blog post you'v... 2 Nov 2025 Strategy
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Odoo Setup and Configuration Odoo out of the box does a lot of great things, but there are some things you are going to want to watch out for. Contact Merging By default anyone can merge contacts. What Odoo does is take the res_p... 31 Oct 2025 Software
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Odoo OCA Open-Core Odoo is based on the original software Open ERP. As the name suggests, it was an open-source software. While there are some fully open-source forks (like Tryton), Odoo is now essentially fol... 27 Oct 2025 Software
Howell-Peak Family, Richard Howell-Peak Time Management If you’ve ever had the experience of tucking into one too many cheat meals after a break in your exercise routine you will know what I’m about to be talking about. Lessons from around the world I was ... 27 Oct 2025 Strategy