Is Technology a Help or a Hindrance?

New Technology implementation is normally something thought up by some fool in the top end of the corporate 'brain trust' who is either years away from actually working on the production side of things or has never been there. To make effective use of technology ask the people who actually produce widgets, they are the ones who know what works and what has problems. The culture also has to be in place, one that isn't threatening, which will allow the producing staff to bring forward solutions that will work. The narrow view of how will we preform next quarter has to be eliminated and replaced with a how will we do long term. A healthy, non-threatening corporate culture, not constantly focused on the bottom line, will enable the correct solution to any problem.

Usually the problem is on implementing new technology. Company want to go with new tech but want to keep the old one. They spend lots of money to integrate both system to find out the old tech is holding the new one down. They then decide the new tech doesn't work and scrap it.

Personal training is another problem. Most people has the "I've been doing it all my life why do I need to do it differently" mentality. They don't want to change and resist anything new.

It takes lots of effort to implement new tech into a business. It need cooperation from the whole company.

Yes, as a former researcher and etchnology implementer I have seen too often that the NIH (not invented here) syndrome squealches any chance of true gains from new technology.

How much and how fast will it "Make Money"! Answer this question first and all the resources will be provided...the rest will be history. What the technology does is insignificant.