Comments on: Interview with Andrew McAfee http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/interview-with/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Sampson http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/interview-with/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 Michael Sampson Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:52:31 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/interview-with/#comment-1015 How can you support such views? There is no support for it in the academic literature, nor in practical experience if you open your eyes and look beyond selling the latest stuff: Re #1 ... Lotus Notes and SharePoint enable the expression and capture of judgment. It depends on how it they are used in the enterprise. Re #2 ... And when is that not true of other collaboration platforms? Re #3 ... Notes and SharePoint can equally be unstructured (discussion database anyone?) Yes, if there are too many rules set in place and demanded by MANAGEMENT and expressed in SOFTWARE, usage may be impacted. But equally ... if poor policies by MANAGEMENT are put in place around usage of E2.0 stuff, the same issues will happen. And ... equally ... unstructured is good in some situations, and structured is good in others. It's not an either/or, it's a "where appropriate". I've previously analyzed Andrew's views here ... http://www.michaelsampson.net/2006/10/thoughts_on_and.html. How can you support such views? There is no support for it in the academic literature, nor in practical experience if you open your eyes and look beyond selling the latest stuff:

Re #1 … Lotus Notes and SharePoint enable the expression and capture of judgment. It depends on how it they are used in the enterprise.

Re #2 … And when is that not true of other collaboration platforms?

Re #3 … Notes and SharePoint can equally be unstructured (discussion database anyone?) Yes, if there are too many rules set in place and demanded by MANAGEMENT and expressed in SOFTWARE, usage may be impacted. But equally … if poor policies by MANAGEMENT are put in place around usage of E2.0 stuff, the same issues will happen. And … equally … unstructured is good in some situations, and structured is good in others. It’s not an either/or, it’s a “where appropriate”.

I’ve previously analyzed Andrew’s views here … http://www.michaelsampson.net/2006/10/thoughts_on_and.html.

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