Archive for October, 2008
Reality Check: Organizational Capacity Part 2
Realizing real resource management can be hard to swallow. For many organizations, just being able to visualize a current supply model in an excel spreadsheet is a god-send! Realizing Resource Capacity management is a much bigger thing, with a much bigger gain.
In this article we will lay out the phases and details to realizing resource capacity management.
Organizations are not typically ready for a big bang approach. We created Waves, Phases, Tracks,etc. to indicate inccemental steps to realization.
Creative Destruction
I want to introduce an excellent speach I heard just this morning. The topic was compelling because it deals with right now, at this moment and the changes and troubles we “appear” to be facing. The speaker focused the attention on an Alan Greenspan book, “The Age of Turbulance.” Mr Greenspan talks about the single most significant event in our [meaning the world] history was the fall of the Great Wall. The Berlin Wall. The reason why this was so significant to Greenspan, to the speaker, to me and hopefully now to you, is the idea of “Creative Destruction.” This concept is a natural phenomenon, but was termed by Joseph Schumpeter. What was learned from the Great Wall falling was that the East was actually producing 35% of what the West was able to produce. They learned that while the West was advancing in technology, engineering and management, the East was very stagnant, producing at the same capacity for the same amount of time. This is significant and not natural.
