It's What You Can do with it that Counts

I found this recent article on "The unforgettable Peter Drucker". It's a good run down on a very simple state of On Demand services as well as the IT business in general. Many of the applications I am involved with, others and our own, have always been about what you can get out of them. The AEC Industry's tactile nature also lends itself to habitually looking for the usefullness of something in terms of deliverables.

Making them faster, easier to use, etc... are all great things for which I have seperate commentary, but it's what you get out of them, via reporting, email, feeds, etc...and how usable that information is that tends to be the winner... Basically, keep your eye on the prize, not per say the rules of the competition.

The unforgettable Peter Drucker by ZDNet's Phil Wainewright -- The management guru, who passed away yesterday, foretold the rise of Web 2.0 in an analogy to the fifteenth-century printing industry.