Twinfield blog

I fondly recall the memories I have of my grandparents’, Grandma & Grandad Kwakernaat, own grocery on the high street in Nijmegen, Holland and of my Grandad’s little kiosk at The Canisius Hospital in the city centre. It made my day whenever I was allowed to help out with little jobs in the kiosk or [...]

In an earlier post I tried to define “cloud computing”.  You would think this term had been flogged to death by now, but there are discussions happening all of the time trying to define it in terms of the various kinds of technology that are available.  That leaves me cold, even as someone who works [...]

A recent question on AccountingWEB asked: “Like many others, a fair amount of my time is being taken on chasing cients for information for their tax returns.  I would be really grateful for any ideas and suggestions how to change this. ” I think a complete change of mindset is needed (on both sides). This [...]

Yesterday, I took part in a round table discussion organised by SaaS4Channel in the Netherlands. It’s a platform, established by PartnerPerformance, for industry peers to exchange views about Software as a Service and Cloud Computing. During the meeting questions were posed to stimulate discussion . How much of an enabler for specialisation in a specific [...]

A busy week ahead including  and events by ourselves . On Tuesday we are welcoming ten journalists to discuss the following subject: does new technology lead to new revenue models? A broad approach which we have decided on together with IDC and Microsoft, including a very relevant case of InShared (Dutch online assurance-company) which provides [...]

More time for advice: we often talk about being able to give entrepreneurs better advice in order to improve their business management, make timely adjustments and become more involved with the financial running of the business. In the many meetings I have with accountants, this subject is often discussed. The other day, a firm showed [...]

It’s human nature to give everything a label.  We like to segment things into categories in order to distinguish one thing from another.  Usually this is a good thing – think of film genres for instance: comedy, thriller, science fiction, musical and so on.  Most people find this useful when choosing a movie to watch.  [...]