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February 18, 2005

Simplicity for Life and Complexity for Business

Pondering today why we enjoy the simple web based applications in our personal life but complexity rules the day in the business world. For example, three technologies are emerging from the Internet environment: wiki, weblog (blog), and folksonomies. Each technology is about as simple as you can get. The value and perhaps one day profit is the number of people that are engaged in the technology. However, applications and technology that is brought into the corporation thrives on complexity. Recently, consultants started discussing registries within our organization. I wish I could have recorded the conversation, not that I think anyone could actually understand what they were saying. Maybe, we need to bring simplification into the corporation.

Posted by Todd at February 18, 2005 7:07 PM