pc, the Internet, and mobile phones probably haven't changed too much how business is done at large corporations (we still submit proposals to have it approved by bosses and fight over budgets), but I think they changed how we view other employees, how we view the company, and how we view our jobs. I'm not sure if there is a productivity increase by these.
Cheers, H.Ozawa Todd Biske wrote: > Thanks for passing this along, Gervas. While I've never done any > work in sociology or organizational anthropology, I do find this > stuff interesting. I agree with the author that technology alone > isn't going to change organizational culture. I think it's a mistake > to think that technologies that may be popular among the broad > communities using the Internet will automatically fit in the > enterprise. There are very different cultural dynamics in play. A > typical Fortune enterprise is not a democracy, and throwing some > Wikis out on the corporate intranet isn't going to change that. This > isn't to say that there isn't room for improvement in communications > where Wikis or some of these technologies could be used, but people > who think that it's going to cause some rapid shift in the way > corporations work are going to have quite a bit of baggage to lose. > > Interestingly, the author makes reference to what the next generation > will expect when coming out of college. I don't know about you, but > most people I know had to go through some sort of cultural shock when > leaving college and joining the real world, and I don't think too > many people were able to push their college culture on their employer > of choice, whether technology related or not. So, we're really not > dealing with anything new with regards to culture change. We're just > continuing the slow process of adopting new technologies, processes, > techniques, etc. as the culture accepts it. > > -tb > > > On Apr 3, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Gervas Douglas wrote: > > >> The question of business structures and corresponding >> information/transaction processing structures and their alignment is >> one which is often used to explain the importance of SOA et al. >> >> If this interests you, you might find the following article of >> interest: >> >> >> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ict_governance/message/156 >> >> Gervas >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > >
