Replying to LO30056 --
Dear Organlearners,
Vana Prewitt <Vana@PraxisLearning.com> writes
>Philip and Alan both comment on elements that support my
>own experience and research. CEO / top management
>commitment to creating a culture of trust, mutual respect, and
>collaboration is truly required to create anything resembling a
>"learning organization". While it's possible to make a difference
>with a few people or for a brief time in an isolated unit, I've
>seen efforts launched lower down the food chain fall apart
>when the system shifts and the alignment of support dissolves.
>
>And I would say that IT and decision-makers who are looking
>for "quick fixes" in databases are BOTH to blame. It is a little
>disingenuous to pretend that the sex worker is to blame for
>prostitution. He/she would be out of business if there were no
>clients. That is why top management has to understand and be
>committed to a long-term solution.
Greetings dear Vana,
Like in my reply to Alan, i want to say "Well said!"
"Quick fixes", or what i prefer to name "treasure maps", are recipes for
the demise of an organisation. I have observed through dozens of years how
many organisations crash because of their CEOs relying on "quick fixes".
These "quick fixes" are alien to a spirit of learning.
>The problem isn't the technology, but the tendency to believe that
>information technology (without using logic, judgment, or strategic
>thinking) is the solution.
Again you have hit the bull's eye. Here in South Africa there is this
incredible believe that the "computer cannot be wrong". No matter how hard
one tries to convince an operator of a IT system that it needs an
adjustment in some of its programs, they stick to the "computer cannot be
wrong". I thought it was peculiar to South Africa as a developing country,
but with you writing from a country running at front, i now suspect that
it is a world wide problem.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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