Comments on: More Dead Paradigms in Organizations http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/10/17/more-dead-paradigms-in-organizations/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paula Thornton http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/10/17/more-dead-paradigms-in-organizations/comment-page-1/#comment-63298 Paula Thornton Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:05:32 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/10/17/more-dead-paradigms-in-organizations/#comment-63298 Dead Paradigms? How about security? It's not that security needs to go away, it's that we have to be smarter about the costs and the economics (tradeoffs). For example, over a decade ago MCI eliminated large contracts to huge volumes of data sources because of the security restrictions imposed. The restrictions would have effectively prevented us from using the data in 'normal' ways (tremendous reprogramming would have to have been done where the data was already being processed). We believed that the actions we had already taken would have been sufficient to secure the privacy concerns, but we were being dictated to as to specific actions we had to take to 'use' the data that we were paying large sums of money for. The restrictions were unintelligently applied. The larger implications of the 'rules' were never considered. Go look for any rule. As I make a point of in a 2.0 presentation: "Challenge ALL beliefs (at least once)" As you point out Devon, there is tremendous untapped potential in these rules/assumptions. Dead Paradigms? How about security? It’s not that security needs to go away, it’s that we have to be smarter about the costs and the economics (tradeoffs). For example, over a decade ago MCI eliminated large contracts to huge volumes of data sources because of the security restrictions imposed. The restrictions would have effectively prevented us from using the data in ‘normal’ ways (tremendous reprogramming would have to have been done where the data was already being processed). We believed that the actions we had already taken would have been sufficient to secure the privacy concerns, but we were being dictated to as to specific actions we had to take to ‘use’ the data that we were paying large sums of money for.

The restrictions were unintelligently applied. The larger implications of the ‘rules’ were never considered.

Go look for any rule. As I make a point of in a 2.0 presentation: “Challenge ALL beliefs (at least once)”

As you point out Devon, there is tremendous untapped potential in these rules/assumptions.

]]> By: Jeremy Thomas http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/10/17/more-dead-paradigms-in-organizations/comment-page-1/#comment-62072 Jeremy Thomas Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:16:32 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/10/17/more-dead-paradigms-in-organizations/#comment-62072 Jevon, You make an interesting observation about strategic partnerships. While I agree that Web 2.0 preaches openness and encourages companies to share data and business processes, I also think there is tremendous economic value to an organization in creating an alliance. Illumio (the company Bill Ives profiled recently) has the banner "Google Enterprise Professional" on their website. This is a huge endorsement for illumio - i.e. Google thinks they're cool enough to partner with. This endorsement brings credibility to their organization, and credibility will lead to more business. For this reason I think strategic partnerships will stick around for a while. Jevon,

You make an interesting observation about strategic partnerships. While I agree that Web 2.0 preaches openness and encourages companies to share data and business processes, I also think there is tremendous economic value to an organization in creating an alliance.

Illumio (the company Bill Ives profiled recently) has the banner “Google Enterprise Professional” on their website. This is a huge endorsement for illumio – i.e. Google thinks they’re cool enough to partner with. This endorsement brings credibility to their organization, and credibility will lead to more business.

For this reason I think strategic partnerships will stick around for a while.

]]> By: Brent Ashley http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/10/17/more-dead-paradigms-in-organizations/comment-page-1/#comment-61967 Brent Ashley Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:40:38 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/10/17/more-dead-paradigms-in-organizations/#comment-61967 This paradigm's not dead, it's just pining for the fjords. This paradigm’s not dead, it’s just pining for the fjords.

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