This is a resource for those interested in how we can provide innovative tools enabling people to have more fun, work smarter and do better business with purposeful tools. A significant portion of tools will involve IT, that is hardware and software designed and configured in a specific way. At the same time processes and business operations must be organized in an efficient and effective manner and the technology present must be maintainable and fit the operational requirements of an organization in order to realize the goals of a business.

The reason we invest in IT is hopefully not because it is fun (which it of course also is), instead the main reason must be that it provides value. The value of an IT-investment can be validated when it is in use and have effects for the customer and its users. Such effects are what we should put our focus on when discussing IT-solutions. My primary assumption is that we must put much more emphasis on how IT affects business, people and processes when used in real settings and deals with real problems. This is when customers and users hopefully will benefit from an IT-investment.

My second assumption is that the importance of people and perspectives dealing with people and their motives, ideas and understanding of the world is underestimated and sometimes more or less neglected as a contributing factor or failure to organizational development and change. There is an unbalance among the perspectives and factors considered when new technology and processes are incorporated into organizational settings and that the people perspective isn’t given enough recognition. I think it is time to actively change this unbalance and make people a first class citizen in it-driven business change processes, approaches and methods.