While I was cursing my former hosting company with silent venom last week, I wandered over to the revitalised Fast Company magazine website and created a blog there because I had something to say about technology.

The post wouldn’t have really fit in with this blog, so odds the difference, but it’s an interesting new platform to speak from.

I’m sharing the link to that post because it’s about a topic that I feel a number of people are forgetting about in this day and age:  tools vs. solutions.  Tools can lead us to cool results, but sometimes we take tools and go sprinting after problems with the intent of fixing them with the tool, regardless of whether or not it’s the right tool.

Sometimes I think we need to spend more time defining the problem or opportunity.  Once we know what that is, then we should go looking for the appropriate solution. 

What do you think?   Do we sometimes “get the cart before the horse” instead of determining what the real problem is?


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