Dickeson--Wanted - A New Kind of Software Company

And in return for all this, what do we get? We get the old wine of general ledger, job cost and mercantile mark-up estimating decanted into a new digital cask with no cost bottom. We play a digital version of three-card Monte.

Don't Blame Suppliers
Now don't blame the software suppliers. They're giving us what we ask for and what they think we want and will buy. That's good old-fashioned marketing. In the famous words of the old comic strip character Pogo, "We have met the enemy and they is us." We haven't really thought about these issues and determined what we want—what we need—to manage our businesses in the future. We're presently an industry in search of a leader. Someone—anyone—please help us articulate our real management needs!