Remember the days when everything was processed on paper and technology was kept out of sight? There is still potential for chaos if we don't teach our systems to talk to each other.
Thirty years ago I was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Computers were in their infancy and many of the companies we saw held the bulk of their information on paper files - rows and rows of them...
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