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Eh, you definitely need to understand the business aspects of a space to innovate in it. SaaS was a huge change in the business model but not really the underly
by ceeplusplus 5y ago
Eh, you definitely need to understand the business aspects of a space to innovate in it. SaaS was a huge change in the business model but not really the underlying technical stuff. But I think it's a lot easier for someone technical to learn these things than for a business person to learn the tech.
- lumost 5y ago> But I think it's a lot easier for someone technical to learn these things than for a business person to learn the tech. That's the rub, people have been running businesses for millenia without requiring specialized education for it. SaaS was a huge change in the business model, but did it require an MBA to come up with the idea? Or was it someone who figured that their customers didn't want to wait for "vN" of the product?
- xphos 5y agoI don't think you can just claim that MBA generated the idea of SaaS nor that MBA (or tech staff)in general generate that type of novel idea constantly. Now you different can argue that one of those two groups is absolutely required to produce a SaaS product and I think its obivous which one of the two groups is optional. I don't think MBA's are useless but its happens to be my experience. That very often where a non-technical manager is attached to the project and they are kinda useless because they lack the insight to contribute but a given more authority that the people that actually know whats going on. I've found non-manager assistants are often way more productive at getting the actual adminstrative tasks required done as well.