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🚀 Exciting News! We’re delighted to announce that TickAudit Limited has officially established its Advisory Board, marking a significant milestone in the company’s journey toward global scale. Founded in London, TickAudit is a SaaS platform designed to simplify, streamline, and standardise how field workers in construction and engineering capture data and report site activity. By replacing manual processes with simple, trusted, real-time data capture and reporting, TickAudit enables organisations to improve compliance, operational efficiency, and decision-making across complex environments. As the company works toward ambitious growth targets, scaling its customer base, strengthening its sales and marketing engine, and preparing for future investment the Advisory Board will play a critical role in guiding strategy, prioritisation, and enterprise readiness. A huge congratulations to the newly appointed Advisory Board members: Savitha Nayak Ashim Gupta Together, this Advisory Board brings deep expertise across SaaS growth, commercial strategy, and scale exactly what is needed to support TickAudit as it addresses a massive global market still constrained by inefficient legacy systems. We look forward to the impact this Advisory Board will help deliver as TickAudit continues its evolution into a category-defining platform for on-site data capture. https://lnkd.in/gBSpJJak

What's the biggest difference between US and European enterprise clients? HINT: It’s not budget. It’s ownership. People love to compare markets. US moves faster. Europe is more cautious. Poland is cost-focused. Germany is process-driven. Nice stereotypes, right? But from where I sit, the real difference shows up somewhere else - usually at the exact moment when things get ambiguous. In US enterprise environments, I often see something very clear. At some point in the process, someone says: “This is mine. I’ll take it forward.” Not perfectly, not heroically, but visibly. Ownership may still be distributed across teams, yet decision accountability is named. You know who carries the weight of the next step. In many European structures - especially the larger, more layered ones - ownership tends to be more collective. On paper, that sounds mature and balanced. Until friction hits. That’s when alignment meetings multiply. Clarification loops begin. Follow-ups get carefully worded. Progress slows down - not because the budget disappeared, and not because the solution isn’t strong enough. It slows because no single name is attached to the next move. This isn’t about culture superiority anymore. It’s about decision design. When ownership is vague, even the best vendor, the best tech, and the cleanest proposal won’t move the needle. Enterprise complexity alone doesn’t stall projects. Unassigned responsibility does. So if you want faster enterprise momentum, don’t start with process optimisation. Start with one question: Who owns the next uncomfortable decision? That one saved me many times.

Small Firms Association Director, David Broderick, contributed a piece in The Irish Times today, highlighting how family businesses can navigate the "digital revolution" without overstretching their budgets.   “For a family SME with limited capital, the goal is ‘quick wins’. The fastest return on investment most likely comes from process automation. Investment should begin by identifying the paper trails that eat up staff time.” 🔗 Link to the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/gQMVmMiG #SFA #SmallBusiness

Digital transformation projects rely heavily on external consultants, and while government aims to reduce costs, it holds no accurate data on how much it spends on consultancy services

Guidehouse secures all TS4 framework lots, boosting its UK public sector tech role with end-to-end digital transformation services. Read the Latest Full News – https://lnkd.in/dZzBVKAD #Guidehouse #UKPublicSector #DigitalTransformation #ITServices #Consulting #AIinGovernment #PublicSectorTech #CloudTransformation #DataManagement #GovTech #CrownCommercialService #HRTechEdge #Hrtech

A recent survey of 817 enterprises found 35% have already replaced a SaaS app with a custom tool. 78% plan to build more this year. The real story isn't the building—it's what happens next. For years, the question was "what should we buy?" Now, with low-code platforms, the question has flipped to "can we build it?" The cost of custom software has plummeted. Prototypes that took weeks and six-figure budgets now take days. This is leading to a surge in internal tool development. Teams are building for niche workflows—approval flows, dashboards, admin panels—that sit between larger systems. They're solving real, immediate problems. But there's a catch. The same survey found 60% of these tools were created outside of IT oversight. This isn't just shadow IT; it's shadow IT at scale. When teams act because they can, and because genuine gaps exist, governance often gets left behind. The central tension isn't about stopping the building. It's about ensuring these tools operate within a governed environment. 🔒 Unchecked tools create complexity. 👥 Unclear ownership leads to orphaned systems. 🛡️ Security exposure becomes a real risk. Harvard Business School professor Suraj Srinivasan warns that excessive caution can stifle innovation and value. The goal isn't to lock everything down. It's to embed governance as a core capability from the start. Enterprises that do this can harness the massive productivity boost of low-code development while maintaining visibility and control. Those that ignore it risk building a fragmented, insecure infrastructure. The shift from buy to build is accelerating. The strategic advantage goes to organizations that treat oversight not as a bottleneck, but as a prerequisite for sustainable innovation. How is your organization balancing the need for speed with the need for governance? #LowCode #DigitalTransformation #EnterpriseTech #ITGovernance 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: https://lnkd.in/g4FkZuRZ

Modernizing government goes beyond just implementing new technology; it requires a fundamental rethinking of how government operates. The CLA article, The Business of Government, emphasizes the importance of a strategic approach to digital transformation, data management, compliance, and operations for today’s municipalities. Leaders who take action now can enhance transparency, efficiency, and trust, while those who delay may find themselves at a disadvantage. This article is a valuable read for anyone interested in the future of the public sector.

If you are preparing for fundraising, here is a checklist of what investors will look at in your technology. Getting ahead of this saves weeks and builds confidence. I have sat on both sides of the technical due diligence table. As the assessor examining a target company's platform, and as the technology leader preparing a business for scrutiny. The difference between companies that sail through and those that stumble is rarely about having perfect technology. It is about knowing where your weaknesses are before someone else finds them. Here is what I would prioritise in the weeks before any investor conversation: Architecture documentation. Even a simple diagram showing how your services connect, where data flows, and what your deployment looks like. Investors are not expecting perfection. They are looking for evidence that someone understands the system. Dependency audit. Know your third-party dependencies, their licence types, and whether any are unmaintained. This catches more companies off guard than you would expect. Deployment process. Can you ship a change to production without a specific person being available? Automation here signals maturity. Security basics. Authentication, authorisation, data encryption at rest and in transit. Not enterprise-grade necessarily, but deliberate and documented. Technical debt register. Acknowledge what you know needs fixing. This builds more trust than pretending everything is pristine. I put together a comprehensive checklist that covers all of this and more. It is the same framework I use in professional assessments, and it is free to download from our resources page. #InvestorReadiness #TechnicalDueDiligence #StartupFundraising #CTO