
130 ◾ Beyond the Days of the Giants
purchased from accounting firms just like tax, audit, internal audit, payroll,
or any other specialist role in an enterprise (see Table11.7).
This happy reality will deliver us—albeit very possibly kicking and
screaming—to the Days of the New Giants. As the friction between special-
ization and the economy’s demand for value in the form of processes that
produce outcomes intensifies, the economy will yield our New Minders as a
by-product of that competition. And it will happen whether our profession
pursues the opportunity enthusiastically or not.
So Now What?
So it’s a valid question to ask whether we shoul