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Inspiration

.... looking for motivation and new inspiration.

On a long business trip to one of my customers sitting behind the steering wheel of my car I was thinking…. what does motivate me, and more what will motivate me to start a business (which later became CPA Innovation&Consultancy b.v.)
That same night when coming home late in the evening, I said hello to my wife and had a quick diner,talked a little with her and after she went to bed I jumped behind my computer .. surfing on internet. All of a sudden it was the following piece of a conversation my eye caught:

…… ICT is a tool (or more accurately, a very large suite of tools) that can be used to achieve a wide array of goals. It is not more, and it is not less. Tools have been around for thousands of years, and though the implementation of ICT tools can sometimes be on the cutting edge, we have collectively accrued a large body of wisdom to help us understand how to use tools, and the opportuntities and limitations they present to us.
Two of my favorite pieces of wisdom about tools:

It is a poor workman who blames his tools

If you're only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Broadband connectivity, telecenters, PC recycling, etc. all have their place, but they are in the end only tools.
We do a disservice -- to ourselves and the people we hope to help -- if we attempt to provide an ICT service or capability without a very clear understanding of the underlying needs we are trying to meet. A very clear understanding of the end goals, and the priority of these goals, is critical to choosing the correct tools. What we must strive for in the future, and what I think we will see, is an increasing understanding that we must carefully select the tools we use based on the problems we are trying to solve. Moreover, we must recognize that in almost all cases ICT tools alone will not be sufficient. We need to do a better job integrating ICT into the rest of our activities as a valuable component, but not as an end itself.

This part of the conversation was written by John Mullinax. It can be found on http://www.mail-archive.com/gkd@phoenix.edc.org/msg01487.html

It did change my view on the rest of my life. What happened, I knew on that very moment I had to build a company and show them there is more than just an ICT company…I formed a company on the edge of business and ICT.
It was like a dance, first you need to know the steps, when your busy rehearsing the steps, all of a sudden you hear the music. Still off and on you touch the toes of your partner, which gives the need to steer each other with words, but, after a while you have the feeling, there is something you do not need to tell each other anymore … it goes like a swan …leaving the water which is going over in flight-mode.

Business can learn,ICT can learn, if they want to, they can learn from us the 'Choreografy in Processes and Applications'.