Yes, technologies have helped to speed things up, but they didn't turn culture of large companies to resemble those at a company like Gore & Associates. :>
Technologies may be used to improve efficiencies of processes, but will it be able to change business culture? I've seen some XP projects using Wiki's but I haven't seen too much XP projects at customers' sites. In a similar way, SOA will have impact on processes, but I don't think it'll have too much impact on changing business culture. Governance will probably still reflect the "old business culture" and change at a slow pace. Cheers, H.Ozawa Steve Jones wrote: > I'm not sure I agree about the PC and mobile phone in terms of business > impact, if you look at things like logistics and sales then the mobile > phone > has had a dramatic impact on how people work and really reduced the > inefficiency in those areas. There is no more "going back to base" to > get > the next request or having to go back to a static phone and playing phone > tag spread over days rather than hours. The PC impact has been nothing > short of revolutionary in businesses driven by one simple programme, the > spreadsheet. The ability of business people to do active forecasting, > calculations and reporting has again reduced inefficiencies and lead > times. > The mobile phone revolution is only really getting going right now as > more > business applications are shifting onto the phone itself. > > Put it this way, 15 years ago (pretty much pre-PC and mobile) if a client > wanted to contact the sales guy to complain about a delivery being > late the > response would take days to resolve, now it would be hours or even > minutes. > 15 years ago if you were asked to create a budget forecast or change the > existing forecast it would days, or even weeks, now its hours or minutes. > Lots of very dull stuff has been automated. > > I think that the internet will only have a dramatic impact when people > who > have "grown up" with it get into management >
