In my opinion, business and management need programmers, it’s just that no one has told them yet. This is very true as it is true the reverse. The reason why

In my opinion, business and management need programmers, it’s just that no one has told them yet. This is very true as it is true the reverse. The reason why this is very true is that big corp are using incredible amounts of man hours dealing with spreadsheets madness. There is no knowledge of the basics of programming or even simple SQL. This means that things as simple as a "group by" become a total nightmare: try to "group" data from 100 entities around the world sent in 100 Excel email attachments. Try dealing with people that put the "Intraco selling expense" in the wrong cell or things of that type. Again, with 100 entities/files. This is a big part of the reason people end up overworked... especially in such fields as finance. The reason why it is true also the reverse is that for how much BS programmers may see in the business/finance world, there is a part of sense to that madness. But it takes time and patience to see it. Mostly I don't see "real" programmers/geeks having that kind of patience. So, if any enterprise product wants to solve the data nightmare in which all Big Corp live, a reach to the business people would be a good first start. But that is tricky and difficult from both sides. Well, long post, but a nice issue that needs some good solutions. If anybody is interested, I work in finance (...) and I do love programming, I am quite interested to discuss this topics.