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Technology for accountancy firms
The influence of technology is becoming huge in the financial services industry. With clients potentially being all over the world, a modern day accountancy firm should have a strong understanding of how to use this technology to their advantage.
The need for a human being interaction is still essential for clients, but things such as Skype and Google Hangouts are making it easier to connect to clients wherever they are.
Great read!
PK Group
Some interesting comments ...
But also some flawed ideas - for instance comments such as
'.. With IT innovation is where the money is made - after the first 10 minutes, few months everything else is catch up ..'
Firstly, how many innovators have gone bust, only to have their ideas taken up by others? Simply look at ASP/SaaS/Cloud - quantify the number innovators still in business (a handful) & how many have gone to the wall? A lot of those who didn't make it, put success/failure down to fund raising & not necessarily bad ideas.
For instance, if you could strike a chord with a financier or were part of a rehab program then doors opened. Of course there are the exceptions but simply look at the present crop of Cloud accounting systems - how many existed in 2000-2003 & then look at their funding background
But realistically, innovators are just that - ideas men. Their skills are not as fund raisers or some such, and generally without assistance they are way out of their depth and wide open to falling flat
The first idea may be revolutionary (disruptive) but invariably very raw and it takes collaboration to build on it and achieve the end result by evolution
Also never overlook that fact that technology is an enabler and not a means to an end in itself.
How it is used, or more importantly not used is the key.
Which some of the early adopters of Facebook (students on campus) found out when they were promised that Facebook (early 2000) would only ever be used as a student medium - after uploading very indiscrete things Facebook then changed the rules & went public - and their previous posts were then available to prospective employers
So trust also plays an important part & being lied to by providers does not engender this!