Failing forward: what I teach my kids on the slopes, and my teams at Lobster
"How many times did you fall today?" It's the question Lobster CPTO Jethro Borsje asks his kids after a day on the slopes, and one every engineering team should be able to answer. When your software keeps hospitals and supply chains running, it's tempting to stop taking risks altogether. Here's why the best teams learn to fail early, safely and often.
With AI models vanishing overnight and 85% of German companies worried about US cloud dependence, the five-year architecture decision no longer holds up. Lobster CEO Tim Srock argues that picking a new provider only swaps one set of risks for another.
Die Budgets sind hoch, die strategische Relevanz unbestritten – und dennoch scheitern über 85 Prozent aller KI-Initiativen in der Logistik. Die Ursache liegt nur selten in der Technologie. Lobster benennt die fünf strukturellen Fehler, an denen IT-Projekte in der Supply Chain scheitern.
Lobster and Arvato Systems join forces: Lobster's no-code integration platform now comes with enterprise-grade managed services. The new partnership helps companies connect ERP, CRM, EDI, and legacy systems faster – and keep them running reliably 24/7, without replacing what already works.
Pathfinder now generates your data mappings. In Summer Release 26.3, our AI proposes the complete mapping with a confidence score on every field, and you review and apply. The work that took days now takes an afternoon. Cloud customers also get a self-service Platform Portal, and the platform opens its first APIs.
Supply chains will never standardise – and that's not a problem to fix, it's a reality to build for. Here's why flexibility, not uniformity, is what makes AI investments actually pay off.
Onboarding new trading partners shouldn't eat your team's week. With Trading Partner Manager, you set up a branded, guided workflow once — and let partners handle the rest, from details to certificates to connection testing. All you do is hit go.
The thing that kills ERP migrations isn't the cutover. It's the partner layer. Discover the one architectural decision that protects your supply chain, and why waiting until after go-live is where the real cost hides.