Bowie peered into the future and quite astutely observed that the rise of technology would challenge and upset the existing status quo.

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It means not accepting the existing approach or status quo as the only solution but striving to improve it and find how to make it better.

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Existing beneficiaries of the status quo will aggressively defend their positions.

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They adhere to the status quo and will not color outside the existing lines.

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And this is where existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and mobile technologies can come together to change the status quo, and do so quite radically.

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