Our Thinking

Brain pickings on digital and beyond

February 2020

A Pragmatic Approach to Digital Transformation

“Digital transformation”; it’s a lovely buzzword, featuring on websites of companies large and small, letting consultants deliver reams of documentation; and every now and then, changes in organisational processes and systems.

November 2019

Five things we love about Flutter for Mobile App Development

Not since we adopted Docker, have we been so excited about a new technology. When we first came across Flutter in early 2018, it was still fairly immature, but promised a lot.

October 2019

Custom Development is Dead, Long Live Custom Development

Custom software development has been given a bad reputation. It is often labelled as “reinventing the wheel”; and in many cases I would wholeheartedly agree.

September 2019

Five Things to Consider when Building Cloud Native Applications

Five things you need to know about building cloud native applications

August 2019

7 Things That TikTok Can Teach You about Your Content Strategy

When SnapChat first burst onto the Social Media scene, it set the marketing world a light with buzz around this new ‘golden bullet’ opportunity to reach the ever elusive millennial target-market.

June 2019

The rise and rise of Python

While Python might get less overt hype than other programming languages, it is an under the radar, valuable workhorse for many companies, big and small.

April 2019

Node.js - The Business Case

This article explores real world scenarios where Node.js shines.

August 2018

Our approach to Black Friday 2018

In this article, I’ll discuss our strategy for scaling for this year’s Black Friday on 23 November, 2018.

June 2018

Hi-Tec Vehicle Wrap Design - a Guide

Vehicle wrap design requires a different approach - read our guide.

April 2018

South Africa as a destination for offshore digital outsourcing

Digital companies are particularly well placed to take advantage of the weakening local currency, by taking on these traditional offshore digital outsourcing locations, with some clear and unique diff