great wall of opportunity!

Excellent discussion on models here and here that prompted an aha! for the slow-witted yours truly:

Not only do one face "entrenched management methodologies and monolithic stacks of software", but also a certain lack of enthusiasm to look into it, even a lack of belief that change is possible.

I can only say: "Excellent!"

What an opportunity!

Say I'm in the pack when racing my bike, then I move to escape: What then if all goes "Nah, he does not know what he's doing, let's stick together and not split up" - should I then try to convince them to join me? Or should I go, "bugger off" and split?

As Hugh puts it.

"Don't try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether."

There is a great mass of businesses that does not want to question their models.
A market that crave "pre-packaged" stuff.
A market that often picks a book title of "seven steps to bliss" over a complicated and challenging one.
A market that wants "best business practices" so they can aspire to be almost as good as the best. In other words, shortcuts and easy-way-out.

That amounts to a complete open road for the brave and willing.
That amounts to a hole in the competitive wall large enough to drive a truck through! Go drive.

[CROP of MODEL BUILDERS: Amazon, Dell (in the beginning that is), eBay.]

Comments

[Jim Wilde]

Hi,

LOL. Where are you? Here, gaping void or both? Anyway, I left a comment for you on gapingvoid.

I live on the east coast of the US, twenty mins from NYC. I meet with corp people all the time. Lemme tell ya, cracking the corporate sickness requires a BIG Hammer. I hope you got one because the "brave and willing" are few and far between. They are blind to opportunites. You're right. It is far too easy for managers/employees to use best practicies/bench marking to measure progress. Denying reality seems to be the norm.

I agree with everything you're saying. Man, nice stuff!

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Jim, hehe, I'm here, and sometimes I go over to Hugh to get a kick in the butt and have a laugh reading his cartoons!

I seem to drift more away from "cracking the coporate sickness" to saying "hey, if they're dragging their feet, why not overtake them?" Let them be, leave the crowd and bet on the few perhaps :-)