Andre Venter Clarity Before Consequences: The Power of Decision Quality Introduction: Why Decision Quality Matters In business, we often fall into a comforting but dangerous habit: assuming that a good outcome means we made a good decision. If the deal closes, the product... Jun 2, 2025
Andre Venter Beyond the Noise: A Simpler Way to Align Strategy and Action Introduction: A Simple Lens for a Complex Business In any modern business, complexity comes quickly. Teams scale, tools multiply, priorities shift. Data flows in every direction. Dashboards light up. ... May 29, 2025
Andre Venter Airspace, Insight, and Restraint: A Case Study in Aviation Product Strategy The Value Before the Venture Most people assume product development is about launching. It’s right there in the name, the development of a product. But often, the real value lies in what’s discovered ... May 21, 2025
Andre Venter Building a SOC and all that went with it when there were no templates. An Organically Grown Service Lacking in Structure To modern readers, the idea of selling a managed firewall service without structured tooling or auditability might seem maverick. But in the late 1990... May 14, 2025
Andre Venter A Little Light That Changed Everything: What the Blue LED Teaches Us About Innovation A World Lit by Tiny Lights The screen you're reading this on, its clarity, its colour, the way it adjusts to light and renders a thousand tones, is powered by one of the smallest, most quietly transfo... Apr 24, 2025
Andre Venter A Different Take on Influence: How Trust and Agency Shape Sustainable Success Introduction: The Influence Playbook Is Not Enough For decades, business schools have taught us that influence is a science, one that can be systematized, optimized, and applied like a formula. Robert... Apr 16, 2025
Andre Venter The Golden Thread: Designing Systems That Bring People and Process Together Introduction, When Structure Feels Like Support, Not Constraint In many businesses, systems design tends to be viewed through a narrow lens, something technical, something handled by IT. It’s often as... Apr 10, 2025
Andre Venter The Wholesale DSL Playbook: How We Created a Market to Own It A Market Engineered for Stagnation By 2012, broadband access in South Africa was constrained by legacy infrastructure, outdated business models, and institutional inertia. Although the country had ent... Apr 7, 2025
Andre Venter The Development of a Medical Emergency Alert Product, and Why We Chose to Develop a Smartwatch Building the Value of Reassurance Designing a watch that quietly connected lives, care, and systems It started, as many ideas do, with a simple question: What’s the value of knowing someone you care f... Apr 4, 2025
Andre Venter How Blockchain, IoT, BIM and a Software Platform was Ready to Optimise the Construction Industry Understanding the Challenge “That’s not quite how it happened.” It’s a phrase you hear on construction projects when two versions of the same event don’t quite match, a delivery that was recorded but ... Apr 2, 2025
Andre Venter We Called It Email Security, It Turned Out We Built a Cloud Platform Setting the Scene In the period between 2003 and 2004 South Africa’s tech ecosystem looked very different. The cloud, as we know it today, simply didn’t exist. “Cloud computing” wasn’t a buzzword, it ... Apr 1, 2025
Andre Venter The role and value of Product Development Consulting Every product available in the market today is the result of collaborative efforts from a dedicated team. At the forefront of these teams are product managers or product management consultants, who gu... Mar 23, 2025
