Enterprise 2.0, when seen through the hypnotizing screen of the BlackBerry, does not amount to the liberation of corporate systems by personal systems but rather the colonization of personal systems by corporate systems.
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Tag: business
Capgemini to pitch Google Apps
this should be easy. the competition has weak and user-hostile crapware.
Job Automation
By 2030, what kinds of capabilities will computers have; how well will those capabilities prepare them to do jobs currently done by humans; and what proportion of the workforce might be displaced or rendered unemployable? The results are rather scary. After looking at trends in machine vision, speech, reasoning, and movement, and estimating how important these are for doing various kinds of work, the author estimates that displacement rates could be over 80% in some fields– sales, administrative support, food preparation, and personal care. These are also the sectors that employ the largest number of people. The safest fields for humans? Law (6%), medicine (10%), science (10%), and engineering (11%)– fields which currently employ the smallest number of people.
ha! the sectors of the economy that are just adding transaction cost but not creating anything will be replaced by computers by > 80%. invest in warm bodies at your own peril.
The Equity Equation
In the general case, if n is the fraction of the company you’re giving up, the deal is a good one if it makes the company worth more than 1/(1 – n).
China work rules
Chinese culture is set on rules and following the rules takes precedence over productivity, efficiency, and even plain old reason.
this will come home to roost once cost of business is high enough
wikis.sun.com
wikis.sun.com i know a lot of companies who need something like this: “how to navigate our phone tree. how not to get charged $3000 for iphone data plans” etc
Blogger Union?
i can’t believe that in 2007, people still think unions are anything other than a disease.
Google in too many fights?
Google seems to be biting off a lot these days. In addition to making Microsoft “hell-bent” to kill them, creating a spat with eBay, frightening the news media, angering the big movie and TV studios, and fighting Yahoo and the other search engines, now Google is threatening the telcos.
translation: it is time for evolutionary pressure to weed out lumbering, customer-hostile giants.
Outing bureaucrats
In the day to day world, the Churchills write books in the country, the Mandelas serve their prison sentence and the Grants get drunk. The bureaucrats run countries, banks, schools, armies, drug companies, government agencies and our lives. My hope though is that the bureaucratic power is revealed for what it is by organizations that adopt the use of social software. My hope is that as millions of young enter the workforce expecting to use social software that they will open up the internal workings and “out” those that have little to say about the real work of delivering the result to the customer, or the voter, or the patient, or the student.
I’m not a witch! I’m not a witch!
I remember a time, it must have been the early 1980s, when it was common to ban phones with direct dial facilities. Why? Because people might talk to their friends and family during work time. It took a while for firms to figure out that this was a stupid thing to do, but most carried on with a limited ban, usually on international direct dialling. That lasted a little longer. Then, by the early 1990s, when internet e-mail emerged, it too was banned. In fact there are stories about the banning of corporate e-mail as well, continuing into this century. Soon it was the turn of Instant Messaging to bear the wrath of Corporate Policy. Then came blogs and wikis and social software in general. Now it’s about social networking.
only companies with already low productivity would think about banning social networks. how about working on the real problem: people running around looking busy and doing nothing?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 