If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail

Back in May in Clients are their own worst enemies, I returned to one of my recurrent themes on this blog, the need for professionals to educate clients. In the period since, there has been an interesting discussion in other fora on issues associated with cognitive dissonance and the law.

The latest post in this discussion is Legal Eagle's The Art of Law. The post includes links to earlier posts, including two I wrote. In the comments Jacques Chester made a very interesting comment @4. It begins: Here in software-land we often quote the old saying that “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”.

Jacques' comment drives to the heart of the point that own professional backgrounds dictate the way we see and respond to client problems even if that way is not in fact appropriate. I mention this now because I want to come back to Jacques' points in the context of improving professional practice in a general sense.

 

Asia-Pacific IT services growth projections

I see from IT Wire that IT service revenue in the Asia-Pacific region have finally rebounded from the global economic downturn and are expected to hit $US205 billion over the next four years. Ovum forecasts an annual compound growth rate of 6.6 per cent over the period to 2015.

Fujitsu retained the number one slot in IT services revenue in 2010, with a market share of 13.9 percent.

I was actually a little surprised at the projected growth rate. It seems a little low.