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May I introduce Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov with whom I will work to translate the English version of my recent book Fra Damgaard til Microsoft (From Damgaard to Microsoft). Sinéad is an academic [...]

When reading my new book ‘From Damgaard to Microsoft’ (available in English next year), you will discover that both Damgaard Data and Navision Software (which was known as PC & C [...]

You may be familiar with the experiment where you ask a large group of people to (individually) guess how many colored balls there are in a jar. Almost no one will get it right. But if you take [...]

When Erik Damgaard in the summer of 1983 returned to Denmark from his six months at the University of South Carolina, he had learned to program. When his friend, Morten Gregersen, in the spring [...]

By coincidence, I came across a little book by Don Miguel Ruiz, titled The Four Agreements (A Toltec Wisdom Book). According to the cover, the book is “A Practical Guide to Personal [...]

In July 2002 Microsoft made its largest acquisition at that time. They acquired the Danish ERP-software company Navision for USD $1.3 Billion. How did Navision – over the course of just 18 [...]

The annual report from TBK Consult showing the relative demand for information technology in each of the 229 countries in the world confirms the steady shift from Europe and the Americas towards [...]

I drove through Europe last week from my home north of Copenhagen in Denmark to Starigrad Paklenica in Croatia. It is a 1.536 km journey that we did in two days. The first day we got up very [...]

I have been working since I was 12 and my conclusion is clear: It Is Always People First – Then the Rest Will Follow. If you want to build and run a successful business, if you want to [...]

Did you read In Search of Excellence, Built to Last, From Good to Great or The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People? Did any one of them make you successful? Of all the people who bought and read [...]