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October 6, 2006

Simplicity Rules

The world is made up of 3 colors, 10 numbers, 4 chemical components of DNA, and 26 letters in the English language. Seems like the world is actually fairly simple but humans tend to build upon this simplicity until complexity rules. This complexity builds until only a few people can understand or remember why. None the less, this complexity tends to create habits, processes, and culture which so very few are willing to challenge. That’s the way we have always done it rules the day.

Why do we implement metadata in the same old way? Why do executives continue to listen to the same story over and over by consultants? Even though, they know failure is eminent. Metadata must be agile to the business environment in order to provide long term value to the organization. As we continue to lose jobs, we had better stop defining our value on how complex we can make our solutions. The days of being the smart geek in the back office are over. The smart geek is now a smart village located a 100,000 miles away.

Posted by Todd at October 6, 2006 2:18 PM