Learn from the mistakes of others

Keeping it simple
February 9, 2006
Charles Wright looks at why big solutions can often lead to bigger problems.

WOULD it be too much trouble if those big IT companies stopped providing us with solutions? Just for, say, the next five years or so could all those product managers and their engineers and programmers go away and let us solve our own problems?

We're tired of what you might call big solutions. Left to their own devices, the average person chooses small solutions rather than big ones. Solutions Inc., however, favours the larger variety because they generate bigger profits. But big solutions tend to magnify the problems.

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Keeping it simple
February 9, 2006
Charles Wright looks at why big solutions can often lead to bigger problems.

WOULD it be too much trouble if those big IT companies stopped providing us with solutions? Just for, say, the next five years or so could all those product managers and their engineers and programmers go away and let us solve our own problems?

We're tired of what you might call big solutions. Left to their own devices, the average person chooses small solutions rather than big ones. Solutions Inc., however, favours the larger variety because they generate bigger profits. But big solutions tend to magnify the problems.

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