The more sophisticated your users are…

“Our users aren’t sophisticated enough for such tools, is there a basic option?” 

The more sophisticated your users are, the less sophistication they need from their tools. 

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Think of the expert sailors of old, who navigated the seven seas with nothing but outdated print maps and a sextant. Expert level sailors today can still pull this off, but if you just got your first boat its probably going to look more like this;

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One button fix all apps are usually needed by the less sophisticated users – which is ironic because these tools cost more as they require a lot of sophistication during the implementation. The modern CIO has to make a judgement call, if your users are simple you need sophisticated vendors, if your vendors are simple, you need sophisticated users.

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You will end up spending the money anyway – its either going to your payroll or to the contract with the vendors.

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