Managing growth while successfully controlling your expenses, retaining your critical resources and facing competition; and simultaneously increasing profit margin, of course, to please shareholders!\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s not an easy business to be a manager these days. And very few can boast being a visionary one!<\/p>\n
One of the key factors of success is certainly productivity, or \u00a0the ability to \u00a0increase productivity!\u00a0 And this, nowadays more than ever, goes through technology.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s the dilemma facing the vast majority of managers, the technology of most of their enterprise\u2019s business applications is obsolete but it has been accepted long ago as a necessary pain (for example, Visual FoxPro which can only turn on Windows XP\u2026) since many of these applications have become so essential to their operations and run critical business processes. And more than a few enterprises perpetuate and maintain this situation simply because it\u2019s acceptable, and profitable still\u2026 for the moment.<\/p>\n
You start suffering from your applications\u2019 technological obsolescence the day it prevents you from developing new and more evolved technology tools because you\u2019re so far behind. Evolving would just eat up most of your operational budget.<\/p>\n
Thus, you stick to your old technologies which still contribute and very much so to your profitability instead of investing in creating added-value for the enterprise through the development of new applications dedicated to BI, Mobility, enhancing your business process performance, etc.<\/p>\n
But the thing is you do have, better soon than later, to get your applications to evolve<\/i><\/b> in phase with technology \u00a0originality or risk missing on the new possibilities \/ opportunities they bring along and which the manager becomes aware of the benefits mostly only through a case study or an implementation analysis.<\/p>\nObstacles to originality<\/h2>\n
Here\u2019s a reminder list of traps to avoid and which constitute as many obstacles to originality among your enterprise. So, you didn\u2019t invest in your applications\u2019 evolution:<\/p>\n
We have to admit that repeated bad performances from ITs over the last decade in terms of meeting objectives. It is no stranger to the fact that most Managers today would prefer to go with commercial products when it comes to technology instead of investing in the development. A\u00a0tailor-made technology applications which could prove far better in terms of ROI and Productivity. But it would represent such a high risk for both the enterprise\u2026 and the Manager career!<\/p>\n
Thus, as for Managers, this inherited frame of mind kills any will of moving towards tailor-made applications even though it could provide some gains or even maybe a major advantage in facing the competition\u2026<\/p>\n
So, ask yourself the question: \u00a0\u00bb in the actual market, is there one commercial product that really meets all my objectives in terms of technology originality and could replace my technological tools or shall I give serious thoughts to the impact of gains and benefits that a perfectly adapted and evolutionary tailor-made technology application would provide? \u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
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Good weekend,<\/p>\n
Denis Paul<\/b><\/a> & Michel<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"