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TBK Publishing® today releases the business biography 5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley – The In-depth Case Study of What Became Microsoft’s First Billion Dollar Acquisition Outside the USA. [...]

What did the failed Newton project cost Apple? What did the OS/2 mistake cost IBM? What did it cost Blackberry to stick to its keyboard? What did it cost Nokia to ignore Apple’s iPhone? [...]

It’s hardly surprising that, in my capacity as an author, I think book reviews are important and meaningful. My main message in this post is not how to please the authors, but how it can [...]

I do not like the term “social selling.” When I reviewed Jamie Shanks’s book Social Selling Mastery: Scaling Up Your Sales and Marketing Machine for the Digital Buyer in [...]

When Microsoft acquired Navision in 2002, the latter had a turnover of DKK 1.8 billion (USD 360M), employed 1,200 people and showed a profit of 22% of revenue. A healthy business you could say. [...]

“5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley” is the English title of the business biography “From Damgaard to Microsoft.” Get the book at a reduced price. When I set out to write the [...]

The USA is still the biggest market for information technology, but that will change within the next five years. China will overtake the USA as the world’s biggest market for almost [...]

The Internet has undoubtedly made the world smaller and markets more global. With English as your primary language, you can find and attract customers in almost any country in the world. However, [...]

As mentioned in the first two articles of this series, IBM and PC&C (which changed their name to Navision Software in 1995) announced their collaboration in October 1987. IBM would be a sole [...]

In the autumn of 1988, IBM Denmark convened its System 36 and AS/400 salespeople for an internal after-hours training session on Navigator, the financial management system from the small Danish [...]