Consultants & "complexity stuff" LO11061

Joe Katzman (kat@pathcom.com)
Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:13:54 -0500 (EST)

Replying to LO11017 --

Michael,

Always nice to hear from a fellow Mac user. Sorry to hear that you're
another victim of a Dilbertine IS manager, but the resulting story does
make your point effectively.

Your point about the relational database model and its potential
transposition to organizations is an interesting one. As for
Object-Oriented methodologies, it's something I've been thinking about but
am not yet 100% clear on.

It does strike me as an interesting metaphor, though, which could
potentially explain many shifts in our workplace. White-collar TQM as the
logical consequence of having to "snap together" teams like distributed
objects, managing at the level of results and values (classes?) rather
than detailed directives and policies that must be rewriiten wholesale
when change strikes, etc.

A couple of sources I'd recommend for those interested in pursuing this
idea:

* Business Week article on "Office of the Future" (April 29, 1996). Read
it, and it's hard not to see some parallels in the evolution of working
practices and computing philosophy.

* Sunworld Online's article about OO computing and business. It can be
found on the web at:
http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-04-1996/swol-04-oobook.html

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