This document discusses the importance of software skills for businesses. It notes that industries using technology have seen a widening performance gap between leading and lagging firms. To have a high-growth business, one should couple themselves to Moore's Law by moving processes digital, empowering employees, and investing in human capital. The document argues that software skills are needed to exploit technology, manage software development/outsourcing/purchasing, and create software. It claims that software is now everywhere and every company needs software skills.