
Foreseen Software
[caption id="attachment_306" align="alignnone" width="300"] Foresight[/caption] We’ve all seen advice by pundits not to build software features or capabilities that are “only foreseen.” One company decided to build software to assist with certain of its transactions. The software wasn't needed at all when development began! The entire project was essentially meant to build merely "foreseen" software. The software still wasn’t critically needed when development was complete. The management team made a decision to forge ahead, adopting the software. In less than one to two months’ time employees became trained up and completely accustomed to using the software. It turns out that sales volume of the company grew in parallel with that effort... After about four months --maybe it was fewer-- the company stepped back for a periodic assessment and realized something very interesting. In retrospect, hardly…