Archives for the 'The Cargo Cults of Business' Category
Mental Mono-Culture
Published on 2 Aug 2005 at 12:19 am.
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Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Principal Acronyms Only, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology.
Over specialization and monoculture both individually and organizationally leave us poorly prepared to meet, or profit from, change.
Cisco and the Serpent’s Tooth
Published on 1 Aug 2005 at 12:00 pm.
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Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Brain Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Networking Technology, Information Technology.
Substantive exposition of the endemic misapprehension that seems to surround Cisco and ISS’ recent actions against Michael Lynn for disclosing their trade secret information
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A Resurgent Sears?
Published on 1 Aug 2005 at 12:25 am.
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Filed under Brain Trust, Winners and Losers.
Sears was synomymous with catalog retailing and virtually owned the rural retail market in America. In 1993, after many false starts they blew it completely…
Bad Weekend for Best Buy
Published on 25 Apr 2005 at 9:29 am.
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Filed under Service With A Smirk, In Corporations We Trust.
I can’t say for sure how much business is lost through these two means, but I really believe that companies lost far too much through poor infrastructure management and planning and far too little through customer reaction to excessive and intrusive data gathering.
