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 My Work
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 My Work
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 Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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A Market Engineered for Stagnation By 2012, broadband access in South Africa was constrained by legacy infrastructure, outdated business models, and institutional inertia.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 My Work
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 My Work
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 My Work
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 My Work
Andre Venter Lessons from Years of Staying in the Top Twenty of the Fortune 500 Landing with Both Feet running: What Product Readiness Really Means Spending ten years inside a company that remained in the top twenty of the Fortune 500 taught me a great deal, not just about scale,... Mar 23, 2025 Blog
Andre Venter Driving innovation as a strategic imperative, using psychological safety as a lever. Psychological Safety: The Strategic Imperative for Innovative, Resilient Businesses In a fast paced and highly competitive business environment innovation often dominates the strategic agenda. It’s se... Mar 23, 2025 Blog
Andre Venter Five strategies you can employ to inspire and motivate your cross functional teams Motivation, in its most effective form, operates on two levels: extrinsic (external) and intrinsic (internal). Extrinsic motivators include compensation packages, bonuses, recognition programs, and, a... Mar 23, 2025 Blog
