This month, October 2020, it is the 30th anniversary of Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) entering the North American market. As you will learn below, the road to success was long and winding.

If a book is to end with a recipe, then the author will always start by defining the recipe (based on his research) and subsequently build the book to support it. This represents a serious [...]

The story of how the brothers Erik and Preben Damgaard started their small software company in the basement under their parents’ house and in 18 years created a company for which Microsoft [...]

The idea was not particularly sophisticated. It was an improvement of something that already existed. The timing and the execution was brilliant. When Erik Damgaard in the summer of 1983 returned [...]

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? [...]

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.” When I set out to write the book Fra Damgaard til [...]

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 [...]

Everyone in the market was taken by surprise when, in October 1987, PC&C  announced that IBM should be in charge of distributing their new product Navigator (PC&C changed its name to [...]