--- Chris Corrigan <chris.corri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:50:09 -0500, Harrison Owen > <hho...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > All the rest is history, but it a history that > seems to get re-written a > > bit. It now seems that the Skunkworks, once well > beneath the dignity of 3M > > has now become a shining example of Corporate > Vision. Oh Well. > > > > Harrison > > Well, Harrison, you know how stories are... > > :-) >
This is interesting - and even more so, if one reads the posts from the end to the beginning... >From my 20 years experience at IBM (in the good old days of S/360 and S/3) I would say that: - innovation is always a fight, and impply some Skunkwork; - normally many (contradictory) stories are organized about any fact, showing different perspectives of those facts; - the last corporate story is as true as the previous anti-system story - yet they are contradictory; - the point about 3M is that a lot of Skunkworks on different products were possible and a lot of new products came to market - in some other companies "bad products" were completelly killed and not even shunnworks were allowed. And, finnally, I agree with Chris - Harrison, you should not believe too much in your own version of a myth. By definition a different story of the same myth will be circulating somewhere. Why are you surprised? Regards Artur __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
