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Good points, Colin; I wish I could have made them clearly to my last employer. Unfortunately they argued against instead of investing in advanced technology and, when threatened by their first serious competitor - Home Depot, which is heavily invested in IT - they chose to lay off their only IT guy. It's sad to drive by a year later and see the empty parking lots at their stores, but it was entirely predictable, and preventable. "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."Thanks Roger. Yeah, these days I think it's happening with far greater frequency. The function of "Information" and it's usage as knowledge is just as important now for a business' survival as Operations or Accounting. Even one man and donkey businesses need to consider 'information' in a new light, because if the other one man and donkey businesses are using information, your business will be severly dis-advantaged. Roger Wright wrote: but it was entirely predictable, and preventable. Now that I'm aware of this is in business scenarios, I can see it a good mile off. The Hard-ware place you were at may now be past the recovery point. In a similar vein reading about Wal-Mart, most small businesses seem to think that their success is attributed to buying power. That might be part of the reason, but the big thing Walmart ahs going for it is usage of knowledge. Better than the rest, they know what to buy, then how, where and when to sell it and at what price. Most small retailers pluck numbers out of the air, compared to the scientific approach that Wal-Mart takes. This doesn't mean I'm suggesting that a business should purchase the first pretty box they find. Just that they need to look at there IT section in a different way. Regardz Colin J Davies
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