VACATION REWIND: The secret to buying software
NOTE: I am out of pocket more or less until the New Year, so I thought I would re-air a few pieces that I liked from earlier this year for folks who may have missed them the first time. Hope you are having a great holiday season and a Happy New Year!
From May - The Secret to Buying Software
Indulge me, if you will, with a short quote from The Book of Basketball:
(Isiah Thomas, NBA legend with the Detroit Pistons):
"The secret of basketball is that it’s not about basketball."
Here’s what Isiah Thomas meant: the guys who have the best numbers don’t always make the best team. There is more to winning than just the raw talent (although that plays a huge role).
What Isiah learned while following those Lakers and Celtics teams around: it wasn’t about basketball.Those teams were loaded with talented players, yes, but that’s not the only reason they won. They won because they liked each other, knew their roles, ignored statistics, and valued winning over everything else."
Fast forward to today, where we are entering into a new world of employee performance management.
Today, if you were again to collect bids for a new enterprise-wide performance management system you likely would be looking for features like real-time feedback, peer-to-peer recognition, the ability to do 'scoreless' reviews, and a connection of the performance tool not to your comp system, but to your enterprise collaboration tools.
The main features you would be chasing would be very, very different.
That's why the secret to buying software for the organization is that it isn't about the software - at least not as it exists at a fixed point in time.
If three years ago your chosen vendor for performance technology had the vision, and the ability to adapt to the new world of performance management, then you likely would not need to chase another new solution to meet your (and the workplace's) changing needs. But if they didn't? And they were really only or at least primarily concerned with checking 'yes' to every question on the RFP?
Then three years later you are left with a technology that can really only support yesterday's process.
Don't get caught up on features. At least don't make features the only thing you think about when evaluating technology.
Features are cheap. They are easily copied. And they fall out of fashion faster than you think.
Vision?
Much harder to come by. And much more valuable.
The secret to buying software is that it's not about the software.
Have a great weekend!
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