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A cyberattack at your business: the one page to print before you need it

On the day a screen shows a ransom note, or your bookkeeper finds that a payment went to an unknown account, nobody wants to be googling who to call. And if email is affected, you may not even be able...

Cybersecurity

Oct 28, 2026

Moving to Odoo: which data to clean up before go-live, and which to leave behind

Odoo projects tend to be discussed in terms of apps and configuration. What almost always gets underestimated is the data: the customer list exported from the old software, the product file kept in Ex...

Odoo & ERP

Oct 26, 2026

Map a process in one afternoon: a simple method before you reorganise or buy software

Invoices go out ten days late. A customer calls for the third time about their order. The reflex is to look for a tool: new software, one more module, a shared Excel sheet. Before you buy anything, it...

Organisation & management

Oct 23, 2026

Domain name and admin accounts: check that your small business really holds its own keys

The website was built a few years ago by a freelancer, or by a nephew who knew his way around computers. He registered the domain name, set up the e-mail addresses and moved on. Everything works. Then...

IT & automation

Oct 21, 2026

A customer sent you a NIS2 security questionnaire: how to answer honestly when your small business isn't in scope

It usually turns up with a contract renewal, or tucked into the purchasing terms of a customer much bigger than you. "Do you use multi-factor authentication? Do you test your backups? Who do we call i...

Cybersecurity

Oct 19, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Peppol in Odoo: what still goes wrong in Belgian small businesses, from customer records to supplier bills

Since 1 January 2026, a VAT-registered Belgian business invoicing another VAT-registered business in Belgium has had to send a structured e-invoice, which in practice means the Peppol network. Ten mon...

Odoo & ERP

Oct 16, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

The right to disconnect in a Belgian SME: what the law requires from 20 workers, and how to make it hold when the boss emails at 10 pm

Tuesday, 10:40 pm. The owner is rereading a quote, spots a mistake and drops it into the team WhatsApp group with a quick "fix tomorrow". Nobody has to answer. Two people answer anyway, at 10:43 and 1...

Organisation & management

Oct 7, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

IT hour pack or in-house hire: how a Belgian SME buys time without picking the wrong contract

The PC that dies at 4 p.m. on a Friday, the mail that will not send, the new hire still waiting for a Microsoft 365 account three days later: in a fifteen-person Belgian firm, IT often arrives in burs...

IT & automation

Oct 2, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

A supplier emails a new IBAN: the checks a small business can put in place this week

A regular supplier writes to say they have switched banks, and attaches an invoice with the new account number. Same signature, same email thread. Your bookkeeper updates the vendor record and the pay...

Cybersecurity

Sep 28, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Odoo in Belgium: what an SME should check before signing

People call me just before they sign. An Odoo Online quote, a Gold partner on the directory, sometimes an integrator in Liège or Namur. The question is not “Odoo or not”. It is whether you asked the r...

Odoo & ERP

Sep 18, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Pomodoro for SME owners: keeping 25 minutes when the phone (and WhatsApp) never stop

You blocked an hour for the quote. At 9:12 a client pings WhatsApp. At 9:18 someone walks over with “just a minute” in the open office. At 9:25 the accountant. By 10:00 the quote has not moved a line....

Organisation & management

Sep 15, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Backups, accounts and updates: what an SME can lock down this week without buying a cybersecurity suite

People ask me which suite to buy. A name from a trade fair, a security operations centre, a shiny dashboard. For a fifteen-person firm, I start somewhere else. Three concrete moves this week — ones yo...

Cybersecurity

Sep 10, 2026

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