25,000 employees. So now, what do we put on the organizational chart?
McKinsey & Company currently operates with approximately 40,000 humans and 25,000 AI agents working side by side. The agents handle research,…
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Digital Sovereignty for SMEs: Lessons from the European Experience
After 15 years of efforts, 80% of European cloud spending still goes to U.S. companies. What Quebec SMEs can learn from this…
Microsoft Copilot Wave 3: What It Really Means for SMBs on M365
For two years, Microsoft Copilot was all over the news but nowhere to be found in actual workflows. Bing, Teams, Windows, a separate platform on…
Automated Market Monitoring: How Exporters Turn Information into a Competitive Advantage
How to automate your market monitoring with ChatGPT Tasks, Power Automate, and Copilot Notebook. Presented at the Grand Rendez-vous de l'Exportation, …
ERP for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: Creating a Single Source of Truth (Without Duplicate Data Entry)
Work-aligned ERP: less data entry, reliable reports, faster decisions. The real key: work architecture.
Connecting actual work to the ERP (mapping + integration)
Meta description: How to align daily work with ERP in SMEs to reduce double entry, improve data quality, and increase...
ERP: it's not the system, it's the organization of work
ERP is not the problem. It exposes the lack of standards, re-entry, and Excel "on the side." Here's how to align work, rules, and...
ERP: centralizing data vs. organizing work
An ERP system centralizes information, but does not organize execution. Here is the difference and what to implement around the ERP system in SMEs.
4 signs that AI is working (SMEs)
4 concrete signs to check whether AI saves you time, improves quality, streamlines validation, and is adopted by your team.