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|In: Industry Commentary|Last Updated:

Organizational change is hard. The following syllogism, while popular, doesn’t explain why.

Major premise: Attempts at business change fail more often than they succeed.

Minor premise: When something goes wrong, it must be someone else’s fault (with “someone else” defined as “someone I can safely call them“).

Conclusion: Business change fails because employees (them to far too many business executives and managers) just naturally resist all change. Why? Because they’re too stupid to understand that all change is good.

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|In: Business Ethics|Last Updated:

It’s time for a few I-told-you-so’s (ITYS), some industry commentary, public policy ramblings, and just enough connection to IT leadership to justify the rest.

ITYS #1: In his Fatal Exception blog, InfoWorld’s Neil McAllister asks, “Is the SaaS experiment finally over?” (7/1/2010). Citing Gartner, which elsewhere continues to cheerlead Software as a Service, he points out that SaaS adoption continues to be both limited and disappointing.

No surprise here.

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