Next moves: Small steps, giant leaps
Humans have always loved the smaller-scale, when given the option. It will always deliver more targeted and more accurate solutions, too. Quite inevitably.
To date, even so, SPTs have been less profitable than GPTs like email, the cloud, the wheel and the printing-press. Or, at least, so they say. Because the actual ROI of generative AI, a tech they still claim to be a GPT, doesn’t seem to be able to deliver any more without the option of using other people’s intellectual property for free. Of course, any business which didn’t pay for its raw materials would be profitable. The real problem now is what happens when a business cannot be profitable if it must pay for its raw materials.
Perhaps, in truth, we should try new ways of getting discovery and consulting right first time. Then GPTs that did work would be fabulously profitable, whilst SPTs would simply deliver an unheard-of software-development accuracy and relevance.
The nio kvinnor holding (“nine women” in Swedish) is a commercial business proposal which makes processes of smaller-scale software discovery, consulting, scoping, development, and delivery as profitable for corporates as the scattergun approaches of cloud (just one example which needs persuasive wordage to “work” for all use-cases) have been to date.
In order to achieve this, we firmly distinguish between two development approaches.
The first one is not what we aim to do; the second is precisely why nio kvinnor is to be set up.
General purpose technologies (GPTs), such as these days email and cloud, and historically, the wheel and the printing-press. True GPTs can be applied in all areas of human activity. But much of what is called a GPT is actually standardised technology which has to be shoehorned using marketing techniques & persuasive language in order to convince a potential client that what they are buying into is made-to-measure and just what’s needed, when actually it is neither.
Special purpose technologies (SPTs), for the chosen business activities that nio kvinnor will be involved in, specifically for the delivery of intuition validation software & hardware architectures of an intuition-friendly/intuition-positive nature.