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But will common best practices like these lower competitiveness?

dionhinchcliffe 18th Sep 2009

Stefan,

I do like frameworks and methodologies that help drive the risk and uncertainty out of doing complex things, particularly of it's new or outside of core competencies.

To the extent that they do that (and I believe some integrated management systems such as you suggest can help), they are useful. To the extent that they are applied to strategic activities -- and some Enterprise 2.0 activities will be -- they also don't provide enough differentiation in themselves to stand out or drive results in competitive environments.

So I agree with Ross Dawson's recent comments (link at the end of my post above), up to a point. In the end, I think many frameworks take too much thinking out of the process and so care must be used with them but they certainly can provide significant value.

Best,

Dion