The Problem:
Business life sets demands that must quickly communicate to Information Managers.
Information Managers have to communicate these business demands quickly to their Developers.
Now Developers have to accomplish the tasks using generic programming tools.
Unfortunately, the distance between generic programming tools and business demands is long.
So, we are delaying in-house software development because the actual programming work is extensive.
Extensive programming work has another drawback. It is not versatile and flexible because of its size.
But companies have to be versatile and flexible.
Businesses must operate in real-time, so they must carry out business demands in real-time.
Now, many ready-to-use tools allow IT professionals to do programming work through easy flowchart drawing.
Yes, but in the real world, things are often complex and reach the limits of such tools.
We cannot impose such limits on companies. Again, extensive programming is required to support the “easy” drawing tool.
Ok, let’s outsource the programming to control cost and time.
Let us suppose that we manage cost and time as planned, which is rare indeed. What about versatility and flexibility?
Practical outsourcing demands such extensive communication that the real-time and cost gets high again.
Ok, let’s try software as a Service, but what about data and processes unification?
We know that a company is a data machine whose processes consume data and produce data.
How easy and effective would it be to cut down these processes to separate software as a service solution?
We cannot get one process from here and another process from there because this is ineffective.
The machine breaks down processes, and the product outcome does not go to a unifying data store.
We need this unifying data store because we need to have at any moment the big picture.
Actual business processes are interrelated, so breaking them down to SaaS makes them ineffective.
Let’s summarize:
A company’s IT department should not act as another software house using generic programming tools.
Extensive programming work needs relevant extensive documentation for internal IT reference.
Generic programming tools are suitable only for highly specialized business software.
Software outsourcing is generally ineffective due to communication reasons.
Software as a Service is ineffective because it breaks down the company’s machine into isolated information islands.
Companies cannot differentiate in the market using public SaaS.
IT department is to blame for every case.
Lack of tools leads to a lack of orientation of the IT departments.
But you know the IT Developers are striving to deliver good software products in time.
Simply the tools used and the external services available are not appropriate for the tasks!
What to do
Try to see it from a different perspective:
Everyday business life is data consumption from employees, who in turn produce new data.
Even the most superficial conversation or email exchange between employees is about communication of names, dates, or amounts.
We have also held meetings for data communication or to define processes for future data communication.
Use a tool that embodies this different perspective for all everyday business needs.
See every employee Activity as a part of a Process Activity.
Do not give solutions as exactly the managers ask them. In most of the cases, the software tools asked do not take into account the interdepartmental processes. Maybe there is an unrevealed process there. The IT has to reveal it.
What we can do to help you
Ask us to automate one of your processes. Then, your people could continue with the rest of them.
This first process will be scripted (or drawn) in every detail. So, we make no compromises here.
And this is relatively easy as
Mykosmos/BOS contains all the infrastructure needed to help Information People script at a higher level of business language.
All processes, forms, data, reports, metrics, documents, emails, and calendars in Mykosmos/BOS are programmable.
Users with their assigned roles, equipment, and many more features are also available, fully customizable by your people.
Building one by one all your company’s processes will finally result in a fully controllable data machine.
It will align all company employees with your data production lines and allow you to have complete control.
We can make your IT production outperform your business needs.
You would feel it from the first process!
Rafael J. Pavlides