So true, but not everybody runs a company like it was a business :\

You may have to turn over every rock, but you just might find some bureaucracy "occasionally".

If your job is to manage X cases which have traditionally been done without a computer, you have the greatest advantage if you can outperform your peers when they don't have a computer either.

If X case management software is then adopted, there will once again be a level playing field, the traditional leader maintains their traditional leadership as long as that is something that is effectively leveraged by the software.

Otherwise, less-naturally-outperforming leadership may prevail once software comes on the scene, and it could very well be impossible for the previously-leading professional to compare with a peer who is also capable of writing the software themselves. Especially when there is good commercial or open-source software already. That way the domain expert having the programming ability doesn't have to spend time programming, but the insight into procuring software and creating workflows can't be matched after a certain point. Just because they actually are capable of programming it themselves if they really had to.