We make information systems

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I often have to remind myself that we make information systems when we are programming for a business. My natural tendency, due to years of education, is to begin by creating a simulation. But this is not what we need to do. Instead of simulating a shopper going through a store, we need to model the information transfers that were captured in the pre-digital information system of pen-and-paper inventory and order management.

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