09.06.06
Have to agree…
Nice bit of thought at membox… no answers unfortunately, but I certainly agree with the idea that business concepts are fundamentally simpler than technical concepts.
In my experience, this sort of counter-intuitive thinking is particular prevalant in financial services - for example, banks typically rate financial experience many times higher than technical competence when choosing employees or consulting partners. You may have done full end-to-end real-time integration of a global supply chain, but somehow they would prefer someone who knows how to work with finance. You know, primary school arithmetic. Finance is simply a form of specialised and very simplistic mathematics - the kind that any programmer understands inside out as a prerequisite. After all, is it any coincidence that when you get a programming manual, example 1 is “Hello, World!” and example 2 is a bank account. The only requirements are: +, -, *. Really not so hard…