This blog is to be a source of inspiration for those of us who want to be more creative. In the blog you will find personal thoughts and experiences, interesting interviews, links to articles and creative people. The more brains that are involved the greater the creativity, so by sharing ideas and inspiration creativity flourishes.
Whether users are performing tasks or looking for information on a website, smartphone or tablet, the interface should be familiar, intuitive and easy to use. That’s the driving concept behind IFS’s Aurena user experience (UX), which is now available across the vendor’s full suite of solutions. Aurena is a browser-based UX that helps users navigate…
A diverse workforce is particularly important today when the problems businesses have to solve are increasing in complexity. “When you bring together people with different perspectives, they have a different way of looking at things,” said Cindy Jaudon, president of IFS Americas. She was one of the panelists during a thought leadership breakfast meeting held…
The story of Vigor is a story of evolution. What started out in 1995 as an ailing ship repair yard has evolved into a major, diversified business active in shipbuilding & repair, energy & infrastructure, and aerospace & defense. What is the secret behind this success? Well, I leave it to you to draw your…
A chat with Challenger Champion Jodie Hatch, Chief Technology Officer at Resolute Mining. Resolute Mining is no stranger to innovation. In fact, its site in Mali will be the first, purpose-built, fully automated sublevel cave gold mine in the world. With a global organization that comprises gold mines in Africa and Queensland and headquarters in…
Introducing Challenger Champion Charles Nshimiyimana of the Rwanda Energy Development Corporation Limited. There are few organizations that are more crucial to society than energy utilities. Power generation, transmission, and distribution to the end-user are all activities that need to be carefully choreographed and monitored to ensure the lights stay on. Speaking with Charles Nshimiyimana…
Good news from IFS HQ today in that the domain name ifs.com is now in its rightful (and purple) digital home. You can now get to our website by plugging ifs.com into your browser (soon we’ll move the site over rather than just forwarding) and contact colleagues at IFS through firstname.lastname@ifs.com. Why the change? For…
Buying enterprise software can be difficult. You are at a disadvantage because the software vendor knows a lot more about the product you are considering than you do. You spend months trying to eliminate as much of that knowledge gap as you can, doing due diligence, talking to reference customers, sitting through scripted demos. But…
Speaking with Lovisa Tholerus Sondén, ERP and Finance Systems Manager at long-standing IFS customer Ingram Micro Mobility, for just a short while, I was immediately struck by the passion she has for her work. Even though passion isn’t one of the three Ps (see below), I believe it is the driving force behind everything Lovisa…
Getting to know IFS Challenger Champion Zainab Abbas, Director of Investments & Projects, Akbar Brothers. More than 75 million cups of Akbar tea are enjoyed worldwide every day. But how do you orchestrate all the various processes necessary for getting the tea from Sri Lanka’s mountain slopes and into your breakfast cup? I had the…
One day AI systems will predict what is currently impossible, to allow us to overcome the inefficiencies in our lives and in our factories. In a previous blog, I discussed the reasons why we humans do not trust artificial intelligence. In this blog, I would like to look at the potential of AI and what,…
