Creating simple IT solutions is challenging, but that doesn’t mean your product has to be difficult to use. Too often, we are confronted with seemingly simple tasks like creating a document, ordering a ticket, booking a hotel, or completing a mandatory government form online. Why do these simple tasks turn out to be a nightmare and time sink?
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Simplify IT
Nobody ever asks for a complex IT solution. We all love simple IT solutions.
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Finding duplicates in a collection: A solved problem!
We all have used Ms Excel. Or still do. Companies love Ms Excel or store information in databases.
A common challenge is: How to find duplicate row items?
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Human created and curated
With the rise of LLMs (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT, the internet is flooded with blogs that are generated by bots. A real check if blogs are created by a real human or a LLM powered bot is impossible.
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Creating agile solutions
Business IT solutions must be flexible.Inflexible business IT software can and will slowly stop your current business. The time needed to change your systems so it fits the current demands of your customers is often too long and too expensive.
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Keep it simple: First a POC than a MVP
To build and test new functionality for your customers you can create a POC (Proof Of Concept) or develop a MVP (Minimum Viable Product). But creating a MVP from scratch is often not simple, since quality aspects such as security and privacy can rise severe realisation challenges.
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Feature rich or feature poor solutions
Research learns that businesses frequently choose products with too many features that they later find difficult to use or will not be used at all. Feature rich software products are often fuel for business complexity.
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Customers do not ask for software complexity
Asking for software complexity is insane. Nobody wants software solutions that are complex. It is comparable with smart cities, intelligent lockdowns and safe banks. Nobody wants stupid cities, governmental panic measurements to fight covid-19 or a bank that can not be trusted with handling money.
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Why Simplify IT?
Simple IT solutions can grow towards unmanageable systems. In the end even a small change involves business analysts, IT engineers and often a lot of managers to figure out if and how a change can be implemented with minimal risks and business impact. Calling buzzwords like devops, scrum, agile and lean do not bring a solution closer.
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Good Software
Simple solutions require very good software. But good software is very challenging. Hard to create and often expensive and complex. But there is good news: For almost every business IT problem good open (FOSS) software exist.
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