The problem with a lot of these "new-fangled" ideas is that their ideals aren't realistic. Look at Obama's "change" mantra. Young folks expected all sorts of instantaneous massive improvements. You know what, "Heard it all before ... check out George McGovern's rhetoric when he ran for President."
All these methodologies to improved "openness, transparency and accountability" (among other things) don't face the fact that another word for such terms is blame. The more OTA there is, the slower things go and the less things get done. Because everyone realizes that a group, department or individual is much more likely to catch hell for what they did do than for what they didn't do.
A lot of these "Enterprise 2.0" concepts are based on the idea the workers are expendable commodities. Hire someone for a few weeks as a temp worker, then terminate the contract with the temp agency. Nice "don't have to get your hands dirty" management style. The company doesn't have to lay off anyone and the temp agency just says "the contract was canceled." For large amounts of work, farm out most of the routine work to low paid third-world workers, wherever it's cheapest at the moment. By the time the main economy tanks because you keep shutting down jobs, the upper managers will be at some other company in some other industry. The same basic thing happened in the Savings & Loan industry in the late '70's-80's, the dot com boom and bust, and then the sub-prime industry and derivatives now.
All these people should stop trying to figure out new ways to do things and should get back to basics of making and selling good products.
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