Software Family

Here is an imaginary idea, what if you compare your family to software trends.

Wives are like Data Analytics. Always big on numbers (shopping, remembering dates). Trends are always changing and you can not say to the market that you don't have analytics strategy (wife), competitors will start underestimating you if you do that. You say you have the latest and greatest tools and you don't want anybody to check on your data.

Husbands are always like systems. It's not easy to modernize and you can't dump the systems altogether. You will be struggling with endowment effect. You customized systems (husband) a lot and it's not easy to find a replacement serving the same needs/requirements

Sons are like AI. It is very difficult to understand and fascinating to have. You don't want them to fully self-autonomous and you can not control intelligence/effects once you let them out.

Daughters are like cloud. You have to have cloud strategy for the organization and everyday you are worried someone else might access it without permission. 

Parents are like Telemetry/Metrics. Always monitoring and reporting performance trends. They know even before you know there is a problem :-) you can not hide anything.

Friends are like encrypted databases. Always the information is stored there and fun to access it and not worried about leaks or misuse. Nobody can run without a database/friends :-)

Relatives are like change management. A process that is compulsory for every organization and you can not avoid it. You can not deviate from it and you have to go with it , whether you like it or not. Sometimes they save you from troubles :-)

Neighbors are like compliance systems. you should have it and you can not violate rules but you want to keep them at a distance. Not good to share everything but you don't want to keep them in the dark either. Your value might go up/down based on the level of neighbors/compliance systems.