Designing IT?
I am reading The Designful Company (Amazon Link) by Marty Neumeier, awesome book and it inspired a “Woah” moment from this One of the things I miss the most from my time at a medical device startup was watching the product designers work, whether it was the engineers or the design guys it was fascinating. I loved wathing the model making and the 3d printer was pretty sweet; and that I think is what is missing from a lot of IT, that iterative thought and the acknowledgment of weaknesses. What worked great a few minutes ago is now broken by something else, IT MAKES technology work for an enterprise, it rarely DESIGNS it to work from the get go. You can make the argument about software development or applications or databases etc. But what about the hardware, or telecom, or infrastructure for that matter? Are we designing solutions or applying a template? Does the software we buy and customize really do the job or does the job end up conforming to it? I found with one CRM roll-out that we were defining the business processes as we went, we would get ideas from the system. Admittedly a young application roll-out but still..
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