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The hidden benefits of custom software

The hidden benefits of custom software

2024.03.07

On the basis of tens of thousands of hours of development of nearly a hundred successful projects, we have collected the experiences that promote the operation of companies in such a way that the development only catalyzes it. In other words, in addition to special awareness, these benefits would be available even without software development. However, they are usually not realized before discussions take place with us, as an external participant, and joint planning begins.

To decide between boxed and custom software, see Development or subscription?, it is worth starting your orientation with that article.

In order to understand the customer's needs and develop the software solution, we even question the usual procedures. And we can shed light on possible contradictions in the background more freely than internal colleagues.

1. The operation of the company must be reconsidered. Countless habits and processes become refined, more rational and simpler.

At one of our clients, it turned out that the departments call each raw material by different names. The table or paper can handle anything, but since we store the master data in a single database, one thing can have one name. It was then that they jointly decided what the unified names would be at the company level in the future.

2. Everyone is happy to talk about their job. Colleagues feel elevated when their opinion is asked in the presence of the manager, their experience is also in the spotlight in front of other colleagues.

We have heard similar sentences several times: "Móni knows this." Wait, I'll call you in for a meeting." And Móni comes, shines, and we get answers to all our questions.

3. Of course, every reader is an exception, but at companies on the other side of the world, it rarely happens that employees spend their working time not only discussing topics related to the company's operations.

We are no longer surprised when our customer happily tells us that since the development of the new software is underway, professional conversations are more frequent next to the coffee machine.

4. It is a general phenomenon that the innovation - no matter how great - is initially met with resistance among colleagues. Employees experience the introduction of a ready-made software as an instruction from above. However, if the development of the software takes place jointly, all participants feel that it is much more their own, and the bumpy road of introduction becomes smoother.

It is also a proven pedagogical experience with children that those who are involved in the preparation of lunch will eat the same food with gusto, which they would otherwise not be willing to eat. It's worth testing at home!

5. With a software automating the template steps, we not only achieve that manpower is freed up. A colleague who can deal with higher added value work instead of checking or manually entering data feels appreciated. You will be more motivated even without a salary increase. If a task that can be easily automated is performed by a human, the company sends a message to the employee that it is worth employing him because of his low salary instead of his expertise, even if it is not a low salary anyway.

It is also an important aspect in private life that everyone can be proud of their work. I wonder how the employee feels, who can tell his friends that his job is actually unnecessary, because a software could do it faster and more efficiently?

6. Team-building programs provide a shared sense of success, help coworkers get to know each other, and strengthen relationships, while achieving self-serving results. Points are collected. They display what someone cut apart for this reason. They find what the organizer has just hidden.

The introduction of jointly developed software is a shared experience of success. Similar to team builders, colleagues can get to know each other from a new angle, and the team spirit within the company is strengthened. Of course, joint mandatory programs cannot be replaced by the development of individual software, but compared to boxed solutions, this is still a significant difference.

7. New ideas arise during the development, which leads further and starts a positive spiral in the company.

We don't have a single partner with whom, by the end of development, we have not created a document in which we begin to systematize the planned improvements of version 2.0.

Obviously, boxed solutions also have a right to exist. It is no coincidence that Netkorzo's product range includes subscription-based software, such as the Referencia térkép (Reference Map) for presenting the successful projects of businesses, or Agrekord developed for farmers.
However, a company can only count on the secondary benefits presented here if it votes for unique software development.

The hidden benefits of custom software

The hidden benefits of custom software

2024.03.07

On the basis of tens of thousands of hours of development of nearly a hundred successful projects, we have collected the experiences that promote the operation of companies in such a way that the development only catalyzes it. In other words, in addition to special awareness, these benefits would be available even without software development. However, they are usually not realized before discussions take place with us, as an external participant, and joint planning begins.

To decide between boxed and custom software, see Development or subscription?, it is worth starting your orientation with that article.

In order to understand the customer's needs and develop the software solution, we even question the usual procedures. And we can shed light on possible contradictions in the background more freely than internal colleagues.

1. The operation of the company must be reconsidered. Countless habits and processes become refined, more rational and simpler.

At one of our clients, it turned out that the departments call each raw material by different names. The table or paper can handle anything, but since we store the master data in a single database, one thing can have one name. It was then that they jointly decided what the unified names would be at the company level in the future.

2. Everyone is happy to talk about their job. Colleagues feel elevated when their opinion is asked in the presence of the manager, their experience is also in the spotlight in front of other colleagues.

We have heard similar sentences several times: "Móni knows this." Wait, I'll call you in for a meeting." And Móni comes, shines, and we get answers to all our questions.

3. Of course, every reader is an exception, but at companies on the other side of the world, it rarely happens that employees spend their working time not only discussing topics related to the company's operations.

We are no longer surprised when our customer happily tells us that since the development of the new software is underway, professional conversations are more frequent next to the coffee machine.

4. It is a general phenomenon that the innovation - no matter how great - is initially met with resistance among colleagues. Employees experience the introduction of a ready-made software as an instruction from above. However, if the development of the software takes place jointly, all participants feel that it is much more their own, and the bumpy road of introduction becomes smoother.

It is also a proven pedagogical experience with children that those who are involved in the preparation of lunch will eat the same food with gusto, which they would otherwise not be willing to eat. It's worth testing at home!

5. With a software automating the template steps, we not only achieve that manpower is freed up. A colleague who can deal with higher added value work instead of checking or manually entering data feels appreciated. You will be more motivated even without a salary increase. If a task that can be easily automated is performed by a human, the company sends a message to the employee that it is worth employing him because of his low salary instead of his expertise, even if it is not a low salary anyway.

It is also an important aspect in private life that everyone can be proud of their work. I wonder how the employee feels, who can tell his friends that his job is actually unnecessary, because a software could do it faster and more efficiently?

6. Team-building programs provide a shared sense of success, help coworkers get to know each other, and strengthen relationships, while achieving self-serving results. Points are collected. They display what someone cut apart for this reason. They find what the organizer has just hidden.

The introduction of jointly developed software is a shared experience of success. Similar to team builders, colleagues can get to know each other from a new angle, and the team spirit within the company is strengthened. Of course, joint mandatory programs cannot be replaced by the development of individual software, but compared to boxed solutions, this is still a significant difference.

7. New ideas arise during the development, which leads further and starts a positive spiral in the company.

We don't have a single partner with whom, by the end of development, we have not created a document in which we begin to systematize the planned improvements of version 2.0.

Obviously, boxed solutions also have a right to exist. It is no coincidence that Netkorzo's product range includes subscription-based software, such as the Referencia térkép (Reference Map) for presenting the successful projects of businesses, or Agrekord developed for farmers.
However, a company can only count on the secondary benefits presented here if it votes for unique software development.