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Among the challenges managers have had to face during the IT "revolution" of recent years, dealing with an increasingly specialized workforce has provoked particular angst. I saw this firsthand when I led a small, elite team of young programmers that supported mission-critical systems in an automaker's assembly plants. These plants are where the rubber hits the road in the auto business (literally).
"The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, "What am I doing?!?" - Jack Handy, Saturday Night Live
In today's environment of doing more with less, organizations are finding themselves with staff members that are burning out fast and are unable to deal with the growing work load.
OH, NO! MY COMPANY HAS BEEN AMAZONED! NOW WHAT? 22 August 2000 by Cutter Consortium
Alert Webster, there's a new word in the English language: Amazoned. The definition: It's what happens to a business that doesn't keep up with the Internet economy.
With the collapse of the dot-com industry, we don't hear much talk these days about the Internet revolutionizing mankind; Nicholas Negroponte's 1995 paean, Being Digital, probably wouldn't sell very well today. Indeed, with the collapse of the high-tech stock market, it's hard to find anyone saying positive things about the benefits of technology.
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