Want to hear EDS?
December 27, 2005 by Dennis Howlett
Charlie Bess of EDS,with whom I’ve had some fascinating conversations has stuck his voice above the parapet and talks about the issues of 2006 in the Grumpy Middle Manager Podcast .
The podcast is absolutely worth your time - the host has a great offbeat take to business management. Worth a lot more is a free subscription to the channel (This link will hook directly to your Yahoo! page.)
One of Charlie’s themes is about the IT spaghetti soup that many organisations are juggling. He talks about the cost of maintaining the IT status quo. In our game, a good example is the need to keep accounts processing, book-keeping, tax, practice management, document management and on and on.
He talks about siloing of information - for example tax and audit - and how that’s extremely bad for business. (I say the same in a number of places.) His punchline:
The future’s out there, it’s not really well distributed
Thank you so much for telling everyone about Charlie Bess’ appearance on "The Cranky Middle Manager", as well as the nice words about my show.Charlie and I have been corresponding for a while, and although I have to occasionally ask him to use smaller words lest my head hurt he is forward thinking and very, very smart.Thanks for recognizing his work as a real thought leader. Wayne TurmelThe Cranky Middle Manager Show http://www.thepodcastnetwork.c.....
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