The rise of malleable software

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By Faroq Adam, Founder, Fynd

For decades we have been reshaping our organisations to fit the software we bought. The cost of building was too high to do it any other way. That cost has now collapsed. The question is no longer how do we adapt to the tool. The question is why does the tool not adapt to us.

The long wave of digitisation

There has been a long wave of digitisation running through every industry for the last few decades. Every few years the underlying technology shifts. Mainframes gave way to client-server. Client-server gave way to the web. The web gave way to mobile. Each shift forced companies to rebuild or replace the platforms they used to run their businesses. And each time, the cost of building was enormous.

Because the cost was so high, software companies built for the lowest common denominator. They identified the most generic...

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