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0 pointsbarrkel7y ago0 comments

Competitive advantage is rarely in processes that a company is trying to replace or automate with third party software.

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^ this.

Coca Cola does their financials the same way Pepsico does. Yet both companies have tried to implement them in unique ways and subsequently have cost them a great deal in terms of IT implementation costs that offer little to no competitive advantage.

mgkimsal7y ago

potentially harder to poach people from the competition if you're both doing generic stuff but using proprietary, custom and opposite techniques?

rbanffy7y ago

That's a justification for writing an ERP in Brainfuck.

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