Comments on: Failure 2.0: Is E2.0 ‘Failure’ Different Than Anything Else? http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/08/22/failure-20-is-e20-failure-different-than-anything-else/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paula Thornton http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/08/22/failure-20-is-e20-failure-different-than-anything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-36456 Paula Thornton Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:52:11 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/08/22/failure-20-is-e20-failure-different-than-anything-else/#comment-36456 Here's what IT typically misses. This was something that I first saw over a decade ago when we were embracing Data Warehousing (then, the 'new kid on the block'). There is absolutely a need for 'production security' -- from an operational perspective -- the things that it takes to keep a business running. [It's amazing to me as to how we're so good at this and yet Wells Fargo had a total meltdown (it may have been regional, I wasn't privvy to all the details) with all the critical systems down for an entire day.] But 2.0 is about teasing out the small stuff. There should be lots of redundancies. Indeed, the BEST leverage of E2.0 is from a data perspective. Here the goal is not to change anything already in place (one example being mashups), but to leverage what's already there in a different way. Here’s what IT typically misses. This was something that I first saw over a decade ago when we were embracing Data Warehousing (then, the ‘new kid on the block’). There is absolutely a need for ‘production security’ — from an operational perspective — the things that it takes to keep a business running. [It's amazing to me as to how we're so good at this and yet Wells Fargo had a total meltdown (it may have been regional, I wasn't privvy to all the details) with all the critical systems down for an entire day.]

But 2.0 is about teasing out the small stuff. There should be lots of redundancies. Indeed, the BEST leverage of E2.0 is from a data perspective. Here the goal is not to change anything already in place (one example being mashups), but to leverage what’s already there in a different way.

]]> By: Joe McKendrick http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/08/22/failure-20-is-e20-failure-different-than-anything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-36407 Joe McKendrick Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:15:10 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/08/22/failure-20-is-e20-failure-different-than-anything-else/#comment-36407 Hi, thanks -- the comment was actually meant to be tongue in cheek, but I'll quote John Keats, who said, "failure is the highway to success." Hi, thanks — the comment was actually meant to be tongue in cheek, but I’ll quote John Keats, who said, “failure is the highway to success.”

]]> By: Mario Ruiz http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/08/22/failure-20-is-e20-failure-different-than-anything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-36301 Mario Ruiz Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:44:22 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/08/22/failure-20-is-e20-failure-different-than-anything-else/#comment-36301 Hi Joe, Most times I find in a different position than Michael: where he sees the Book of Revelations (Apocalypses) in every move a Web 2.0 company make, most times I see progress. Even when we make mistakes, I a see a lesson. But today I am surprised your own description: Seasoned expert in failure. I thought it came with the nature of every consultant, because most real life projects do not last what we predicted and do get the 100% of what we hoped. Consultants spend plenty on time form one project to other, do they have seen plenty of failures. Also the "start up managers" are kind of failure experts, based on simple math, nine out of ten companies go out of business before the year number six. But I wonder what makes a person a seasoned failure expert. I can't help to wonder, How are you professionally, how was college. Mario Ruiz @ http://www.oursheet.com Hi Joe,

Most times I find in a different position than Michael: where he sees the Book of Revelations (Apocalypses) in every move a Web 2.0 company make, most times I see progress. Even when we make mistakes, I a see a lesson.

But today I am surprised your own description: Seasoned expert in failure. I thought it came with the nature of every consultant, because most real life projects do not last what we predicted and do get the 100% of what we hoped. Consultants spend plenty on time form one project to other, do they have seen plenty of failures.

Also the “start up managers” are kind of failure experts, based on simple math, nine out of ten companies go out of business before the year number six.

But I wonder what makes a person a seasoned failure expert. I can’t help to wonder, How are you professionally, how was college.

Mario Ruiz
@ http://www.oursheet.com

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