IRIS Blogs

As a late 1990′s .com entrepreneur and survivor(!) I love the opportunities that new technologies can bring to our users but I’m also probably more wary than many of the hype it can create when misunderstood.

Every year, I review a lot of business plans. Many are internal pitches for investment, while others are business plans sent in by entrepreneurs looking to sell out. Scanning a business plan is bit like reading CVs. With experience, you can tell which business plans you want to focus your efforts on and then weed [...]

So there I was last week lying flat on my back, writhing in agony, wondering what had happened to me. Read my latest Real Business post: http://realbusiness.co.uk/martin_leuw/what_do_you_stand_for

The Chancellor announced last week that the next budget and the final one before the General Election will be on 24th March 2010. As a leading provider of tax software(personal, business and payroll), once announced, these dates are hard-wired into our brains/calendars as we have important deadlines to complete, to get everything ready for our [...]

I started 2010, with a request to everybody at IRIS: “Let’s make it an E Mail Light Year”. We all (not just at IRIS I’m sure) spend way too many hours sending/receiving e-mail, particularly being copied on e-mails that we probably don’t even need or the worst sin of all, participating in or being copied [...]

Read my latest article for Real Business magazine at: http://www.realbusiness.co.uk/news/finance-and-banking/5765903/how-many-economists-does-it-take.thtml

I met up last week with the second team of people who have just completed our one year Future Leaders programme…

I read a very interesting book last year called “The End of Lawyers” by Richard Susskind. My main takeway from it, was that new entrants (e.g. supermarkets, financial services businesses) to the legal profession permitted by the so called “Tesco Law” would mean major changes to the legal sector, but that great opportunities would open up for [...]

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About 5 years ago, when the IRIS software business was a lot smaller (c250 people) compared to the 1,200 people we are today, we got everybody into one room and asked them to discuss:  “how will the future be different?” and “what should we be doing about it?”. The event was facilitated by Michael Jackson (no [...]