Technology cooperative

There used to be a time when one of the big 5 consulting firm will cook up a fancy methodology to push big ERP upgrade. In order to make a killing in the process. Every customer will have to buy the same or similar expensive methodology. Lot has happened since those days - big promises, over run budgets, CIO losing their job and some say relevance. This was bound to initiate some grassroot level activism from the customer side.

Calls for an idea whose time has come - customer driven activism. Bunch of IT execs and CIO have launched one such body in the form of a technology cooperative.

Add this point to the ever growing concern for enterprise software sales execs.