The question for leaders in organizations today is how is it possible to promote information flow and arrive at the top of my competition? How is it possible to create a large gap between our competitors and ourselves? We should never become to comfortable. Before we know it, our competitors can come back and create the best new product or marketing strategy to lead the market.
Most businesses end up hiring programmers at one point or another. A question you will soon face is whether you are expecting the same thing as they are offering.
The basic service provided by programmers has not changed since the early days of punch cards. The programmer is still the one who prepares the instructions for the magical machine known as the computer. This is a two step process. The intended function has to be understood and the logic of it available in a human understood language, but it must be coded into a computer in a manner that the computer can understand and process. This has not changed, but rather become more and more complex.