When one doesn't have the knowledge or ability to enact change within their lives, the unfortunate result is, change will never take place.
When one stops to think about the truth and consequences of that statement, it truly is a pretty sad state to be in, especially when one's state is one of desperate need. Sometimes it's an entire society or nation in need - and unfortunately, no one stops to think. Sometimes an entire nation needs to change, but no one has taken the time to figure out how to make it happen.
So frequently we find ourselves in situations whereby we live with whatever our current circumstances happen to be because we don't know there actually is a different way of doing it, whatever it is we are doing, and the truth is, it could be changed just as easily as not. Please don't get me wrong, it's not ignorance causing us to be side blinded, we simply just don't know.
Commonly it can be as simplistic as knowing in our hearts that something s hould be better and could be better but we are destined to live with what we currently have only because no one has taken the time and effort required to come up with a better alternative.
Occasionally we have lived with not so pleasant things which really could have been better for so long we have come to accept them as being totally unchangeable. We believe it so fiercely in both our hearts and minds that we honestly believe nothing can possibly be changed because we honestly think that there is no alternative. Sometimes we can be so oblivious to what is really happening that we drown in our misfortune and yet, while doing so, continue to think things are absolutely grand. This is so often the case. So it is today in the computerized information and accounting systems we continue to use every day.
Over the past three decades we have seen tremendous change in some areas and yet so little or none in others, even in ERP information and accounting systems.
If you stop and think about it, have ERP information and accounting sys tems really changed all that much in the past 30 years? Are they not still just a group of accounting modules? Handled just like they were controlled manually more than fifty or sixty years ago? Are they not still serving the primary function of accounting and little else beyond that? Are they not still made up of hundreds or even thousands of files, frequently containing duplicated data?
Oh, there is no doubt, information systems have become infinitely faster and the delivery methodologies have changed dramatically over the past 30 or so years, but have they really become better? Are they really fulfilling the needs we have to-day? Could they be better? Could they be simpler and a lot less complex?
My personal belief is that the computerized accounting systems we use to-day are long past their due for a change date. I could explain how but I purposely leave that for a future article.
I have to admit, perfection is a matter of degree and what we see as perfe ction to-day will not be perfect tomorrow. But we are now at a crossroads with respect to information and accounting systems. What we need is new vision because what we are using has...
Well, I will let you continue with that.
What do you think the perfect system really should look like to-day?
More importantly, what do you think the perfect system should be doing for businesses to-day?
What do you truly think and believe? What really is the best possible ERP software model? Are we really there yet?
Ron Bunn, author and joint founder of unERP technologies, is an accountant by trade and an information systems designer and computer programmer by desire. His first personal home computer purchased in the late 1970's costing more than $72,000.00 in to-days dollars was his launching pad to an exciting and challenging career in information technologies. He lives in Rothesay, N.B., Canada where he continues to spend his time in nurturing the development of new ideas to simplify both accounting and computer system user activities within all levels of administration.
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