I’ve asked a number of professional colleagues to help me figure out what’s needed in client side software from the professional’s standpoint. This is a tricky one because professional’s are used to Pacioli thinking yet my soundings indicate the world is in a state of change. And I don’t mean tinkering around the edges.
While I’ve had a good dose of private feedback, Richard Murphy has been kind enough to detail his thoughts in a public blog post. <Gulp> But then I asked for it and in many ways Richard’s response represents the challenge that transparency presents. I should have anticipated that – which just goes to show that I’m not as good at eating my own dog food as I’d like to think.
No longer can we have the ‘behind closed doors’ crunching of user surveys that are so often self-fulfiling and/or self selecting. Ask for a view and be prepared to take what comes. Do it in public. See what passionate people think because they’re the game changers.
That’s what Shel Israel has been doing on behalf of SAP and it produces some genuinely interesting nuances. It’s a whole new way of discovering valuable information. It’s also scary. But as a wise friend said this week: “We may be on the fringe but we ain’t shining shoes.” My interpretation is somewhat pithier: “We ain’t licking ass either.”
BTW – if you wish to express a view, then by all means drop a comment or crank out a post of your own but just so’s you know – I’m in the commodification business. That means commoditizing the grunt work so you get to concentrate on value.
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