Chazin believes the problems companies encounter are two-fold. Problem number two occurs when companies build one-off connections. The result, Chazin says, is often a wiring mess that they can neither change nor maintain. As a comparison example, Chazin points to the way an Excel spreadsheet with formulas can adjust cells across an entire table based on edits to a single cell. Once companies make it past those problems, they reach a point where they can enhance their offerings.
Any customer is a potential partner.
Chazin also credits to Bowstreet co-founder Frank Moss for realizing a vision that many in the online world consider somewhat revolutionary. And instead of websites being static there will be this fluid interconnected Web of companies doing business in ways they never thought they could. When Bowstreet is engaged to help a client company, the staff spend a lot of up-front time assessing the entire company. We help them not only with Bowstreet but with their whole e-business strategy. Next, client staff come in for up to two weeks of hands-on training to familiarize themselves with how the technology works.