Blogs

“Market leader” is synonymous with mediocrity, and that costs you a lot of money, possibly millions.

The roadmap of a monopolist is no longer about your speed, but about their predictable revenue. It starts subtly and ends in slow software, more expensive licenses, and more incidents. This blog shows you where the leaks are and which buttons you already have at your disposal today.

This is the end of your agility, IT professional

More and more companies are bending their processes to fit standard SaaS. Nice and fast, less customization—but you're buying agility and autonomy from your supplier. What are you really solving, and what are better alternatives?

I see your IT leaks. And I can't look away.

IT isn't “expensive” because of bad luck. It's expensive because of complexity that doesn't suit your scale. In this blog, I'll show you where that waste occurs — and why you often pay for IT that you don't need at all.

The uncomfortable answer to “What does digital autonomy really cost?”

What does digital autonomy really cost? A LinkedIn discussion got me thinking: the comparison between hyperscalers and Schleswig-Holstein sounds clear, until you scrutinize the assumptions. In this blog, I show where “integration” is mainly framing, which hyperscaler risks you are missing in your...

2026: I want less complexity, more results

We didn't make IT complicated because we had to, but because we came to see it as normal. This blog shows how complexity can quietly eat away at your pace, budget, and control—and how you can get back to “strictly necessary” without being naive.

Technical debt is management debt

Technical debt is rarely a technical problem. New hardware, cloud, or AI can move and upgrade your code—but it doesn't solve your choices. In this blog, you'll read how software really wears out, why you often migrate problems, and what it takes to structurally reduce debt. Read the blog → Why you...

Stop these 7 IT reflexes (before they eat up your budget)

Add another server, put everything blindly in the cloud, leave control to your supplier, dismiss open source... It seems logical, but it eats into your margin and your agility. In this blog, I dissect 7 stubborn IT reflexes that are holding your organization back. These are the habits you must drop...

OT: not a back door, but the main entrance

You think your OT is a back door. In reality, it's the main entrance. Bridges, pumps, production lines, and cooling systems are all connected to the network “just for a moment.” With protocols from 1998, they operate under the threats of 2025. In this blog, Hugo shows why old OT leaves your entire...

The Netherlands does not have a capacity problem. We are wasting capacity.

We claim that we need more data centers, while CPUs are sitting idle, data is being pumped around unnecessarily, and features are consuming capacity without adding value. In this blog, I will show you how to move from “buying more” to “designing better” by measuring, eliminating, and making smarter...