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Case in flux. (Cadre Technologies Inc. VP Lou Mazzucchelli on the future of computer-aided...

By Vaughan, Jack
Publication: Software Magazine
Date: Wednesday, December 1 1993

Cadre Technologies Inc VP Lou Mazzucchelli is interviewed on the future of the software industry and of computer-aided software engineering (Case). According to Mazzucchelli, management information systems (MIS) managers in the future will be managing people who are experts in determining user needs, rather than being technical experts. Mazzucchelli predicts that although the computer industry has been moving from centralized to decentralized systems, it will return to centralized systems when MIS managers realize how difficult it is to manage decentralized systems. He also predicts that co