Summary

• Software systems start at SGD10k with SGD2.5k annual maintenance after 1st year.
• Bug-fixes and sofware extensions within initial scope included in first year and with annual maintenance.
• Payback within 3 to 6 months where system frees up a SGD30k a year employee.

Indicators that you need digital assistance

You and/or your staff:
a. Maintain a huge Excel/spreadsheet this is becoming increasingly more difficult to use.
b. Mistakenly placed duplicate orders, leading to waste, because it has become to difficult to track manually.
c. Want to use AI to gain a competitive advantage but don’t know how or where to start.

How are we different?

1. We believe in providing value by addressing the business need. We do this by exploring with you and your team what you need.
2. We defining the scope of the system to address that need. As mentioned before software extentions within this scope is included. Thus we can start off with a vague concept and fine-tune it as the system evolves without additional charges.
3. Define the value the system will provide and how to measure that value.

How to Nurture Kindness: A lesson from Confucius

What is kindness? Can kindness be nurtured? How to be a kind person and nurture kindness? Is being kind naive? In this article I will try to attempt to answer these questions.

Like Aesop’s fables, many Chinese stories teach morals. Being trustworthy is one of the most important morals to many Chinese. They disdain people who cannot be trusted. From a young age, children are taught that their word is their bond. They are brought up by examples shown by their elders and from stories from history.

What is the moral behind this fable? This is one version of the story. Could Aesop have made a mistake? What if the story had a different version, a different ending? What life lessons can we learn?

What are the morals in the story? What happened after the race? What and how can we benefit if we ask questions and consider things from other points.

Aesop’s Fable ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’

The fable: Once there lived a tortoise and a hare. They were good friends and often played together with their other friends, the fox, the deer and other animals. However, one day the hare teased the tortoise that he was always so slow. He challenged the tortoise to run a race with him. The other animals were delighted. They marked out the starting and finishing lines and acted as referees, cheer leaders etc. And so the race started. The hare ran very fast and soon he was near the finishing line. He looked back and saw that the tortoise was a long way behind and decided to take a nap. When he woke up, he saw that the tortoise had overtaken him. He dashed to the finishing line but alas the tortoise crossed the line before him.

Do you have difficulty teaching honesty to children? Why do children lie? Why do we lie? Read this article to learn how to teach honesty, prevent lying and have win-win interactions.

Is there more than one moral in the story? Did Aesop misunderstand the fox? Is there only one way to interpret the fox? What and how can we benefit if we ask questions and consider things from other points.