Operations At The Edge

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Articles and insights about operations at the edge

The Computing History Parallel: Why Operations at the Edge Is Inevitable
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The Computing History Parallel: Why Operations at the Edge Is Inevitable

How 70 years of computing history predicts the future of business software. From mainframes to edge computing—and what it means for your organization.

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The Five Waves of Business Software: How We Got Here
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The Five Waves of Business Software: How We Got Here

How 15 years of SaaS innovation created 14,000+ tools and the fragmentation crisis. Sales, Service, Marketing, Finance, AI—each wave solved problems and created new ones.

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Operations at the Edge: The Philosophy
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Operations at the Edge: The Philosophy

Push operational capability to where work happens. Give teams sovereignty over their tools while keeping data unified. The principle that transforms how organizations scale.

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Central Control vs Operations at the Edge
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Central Control vs Operations at the Edge

How WaymakerOS differs from Microsoft and Google's centralized approach to business software.

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The Falklands Lesson for Business Software
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The Falklands Lesson for Business Software

What the 1982 Falklands War teaches us about software bottlenecks and decentralized operations.

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The HQ Bottleneck: How Centralized Software Kills Innovation
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The HQ Bottleneck: How Centralized Software Kills Innovation

Why permission culture destroys competitive advantage and what Operations at the Edge changes.

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Mission Command for Software: How We Built WaymakerOS
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Mission Command for Software: How We Built WaymakerOS

The architecture principles behind Operations at the Edge and why every feature enables autonomy.

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Why Your Teams Are Waiting for IT (And What to Do About It)
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Why Your Teams Are Waiting for IT (And What to Do About It)

The hidden cost of IT bottlenecks and how workspace sovereignty eliminates permission culture.

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Workspace Sovereignty: The Future of Business Operations
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Workspace Sovereignty: The Future of Business Operations

What autonomous workspaces look like and why they outperform centralized tool control.

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