All Posts in Office Politics

|In: Architecture|Last Updated:

The subject two weeks ago: Which pays the bills, enterprise architecture or enterprise technical architecture (“Enterprise Architecture / Enterprise Technical Architecture Cage Match,” KJR, 3/7/2011).

This week’s subject: Do you talk like that in public?

It happened like this. Just to stir the pot a bit, I used the cage match column in the LinkedIn Enterprise Architecture Group (“A proposition: Enterprise Architecture gets the executive suite attention, but it’s Enterprise Technical Architecture that pays the bills.”)

The do-you-talk-like-that-in-public question is about the conversation that followed. No, there was no offensive language. Nobody swore or called anyone else a Nazi, and in fact a good discussion ensued.

What it has to do with is …

Comments

|In: Industry Commentary|Last Updated:

Innovation is one of those widely admired characteristics that’s also widely misunderstood.

The admiration is deserved. According to an I-sure-wish-I-could-track-it-down-so-I-wouldn’t-have-to-rely-on-my-memory essay published in The Economist more than a decade ago, quite literally all economic growth throughout history has been the result of technological innovation.

I’m in favor, but the vote is hardly unanimous. George Will, for example, takes the other side of the debate, asserting, “Most improvements make matters worse because most new ideas are regrettable …” If you agree with Mr. Will on this point you might as well skip the rest of this column.

For everyone else:

Comments