Business Systems
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Citizen Development Isn’t Omnipotent—It Is “Draft Development” (Part 5 of 7)
2025-08-26
Citizen development is not a path to production-grade systems. Its value lies in acting as a draft that visualizes requirements from the user’s perspective. A well-crafted draft reduces misinterpretation and gaps, improving the precision of professional implementation—provided experts always do the final clean copy.
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Was Kami Excel Truly the Villain?—From Savior to Negative Legacy (Part 2 of 7)
2025-08-23
Kami Excel was not evil. It was a necessary remedy that saved frontline teams, yet it turned into negative legacy because organizations failed to govern it and society lacked IT literacy. Kami Excel was fundamentally readable—had true IT adoption taken hold, it might have been an ideal productivity tool.
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Is Citizen Development the Return of EUC?—Lessons from Kami Excel (Part 1 of 7)
2025-08-22
Citizen development is not a new idea. Revisiting the history of EUC and Kami Excel reveals a recurring pattern of short-term success turning into long-term debt. By comparing today’s no-code and low-code tools with their predecessors, we can grasp both the risks and possibilities of citizen development.