I guess one thing important to C-level executives are relationships between people so the old reliable Contact Book might work. This could be done in several levels: * basic - addresses & birthdays colleagues & family * intermediate - interface with external services to automatically send email * advanced - automatically buy a present from colleague's Amazon wish list
Bonus points if the interface works well from a smart phone. Along the same of people relationships, maybe they would be interested in a way to mine Facebook / LinkedIn data, but their may be sensitive non-technical issues to be careful of here or trawl news feeds doing sentiment analysis of their company. cheers -ben On 7 April 2018 at 23:20, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ben > > what would be interesting to build is a case: what a Boss would like to > code? > Because once we have this case we could model it and have a DSL > (pharo) to script it. > > Stef > > On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > > This article about the "Mining Industry's Impending Digital > Metamorphosis" > > https://medium.com/@CORE_Innovation/minings-impending- > metamorphosis-155d66869149 > > > > is a little off topic, except where it says "All levels, including > > management and executives will need to have some level coding experience > and > > understanding." > > > > made me think this must be pervasive across many industries and that an > > interesting strategy > > for Pharo would be teaching a course called... "Executive Programming". > > Pharo could be ideally suited to filling this niche... > > * Executives don't need to learn the *most* efficient language (i.e. C), > > * and don't need to learn a system suited to large groups of developers > > (i.e. Java) > > * and don't have the time to wait for things to compile (i.e. big tick > > immediate feedback) > > They are never going to "do the work" but just need to gain a general > > understanding of "programming" to better strategise at a higher level and > > interact with developers. > > What better language is there for this than Pharo? > > > > But guess what happens when the boss is familiar with and likes one > > particular language... ? > > > > /cue maniacal laugh > > > > cheers -ben > > > > P.S. I'd be interested in collaborating on something that is not an end > user > > book, but more of an Instructors manual for such a course. > >
