Quonsult LLC is an idea that has been around for many years. It was formed through experience and postulates that IT
is no longer a cost of doing business rather it is the business. Here are just some of the ideas underlying the Quonsult
philosophy:

• "The organization that has the best information, knows how to find it, and can utilize it the quickest wins." (Michael Daconta, etal)
• "If we do not start with a specification, every line of code we write is a patch." (Leslie Lamport)
• "Quality is not free, but it's cheaper than the alternative." (Gordon Glasgow)
• The "Three Laws" of Software Development
• Conway's Law -- Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it. (Melvin Conway)
• Humphrey's Law -- People don't know what thy want until they see what they don't want. (Peter Saddington)
• Ziv's Law -- Software development is unpredictable and that the documented artifacts such as specifications
  and requirements will never be fully understood (Jeff Sutherland)

We have often seen that systems are built and deployed without an understanding of the informational needs they must support.
This puts key business information at risk and this leads to poor decisioning. These risks can be mitigated however through
clear system envisioning and governance. Data should be managed as assets to maximize investment in its acquisition,
storage, processing, and retrieval.

Investments in IT should be made with the concious intent of achieving competitive advantage.