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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Wilkie) writes: > Will Durant, a famous historian once said that a nation is born stoic > and dies epicurean. The same is true for everything from Operating > Systems, to change control to society in general. We enhance > everything to a point where it is sophisticated and mature and then > abandon it because it is too expensive. Then we begin again. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#72 Outsourcing dilemma or debacle, you decide... Boyd "ooda-loop" would say that it got too rigid and structured ... including too many people with vested interests in not changing. OODA-loop metaphor focuses on agile, adaptibility and change http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html ... I would assert that it isn't "too expensive" per se ... but too rigid and unable to adapt. Vested interests are likely to throw up lots of road blocks to change ... making things more complicated (and also expensive). Frequently KISS is more conducive to being inexpensive, agile, and adaptable (and also viewed as threat to vested interests). There is some claim that somewhat happened in the wake of the failed future system project ... old post that includes comments from fergus/morris book about the wake left after future system project failed http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#33 lots of past posts mentioning failed future system project http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#futuresys and it took the corporation quite some time to work out of it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
