Comments on: The Future According to Microsoft http://enterprise2blog.com/2009/01/the-future-according-to-microsoft/ Enterprise 2.0 Blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jon Husband http://enterprise2blog.com/2009/01/the-future-according-to-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-7845 Jon Husband Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:49:51 +0000 http://enterprise2blog.com/?p=1260#comment-7845 I just finished the book tonight. I obtained my copy at the recent FASTForward09 conference (disclosure: I write for the FASTForward blog) where Dan Rasmus offered the audience a (comprehensive, well-delivered but over-long) presentation based on the book. I like your review; I think it shows that you read the book carefully. In my case, I sped through the book pretty quickly. There are parts that are choppy where the style and / or intended prpose and audience seem to shift. The main reason I sped through it is that a lot of it is about transparency and the disruption interconnected people and technology (both employees and customers) are bringing to the strategic challenges of business models, execution and management effectiveness, and this is an area of disruption and change I have been writing and speaking about in the guise of an emerging organizing principle (for both organizational structure and workplace and market dynamics) that I have called <a href="http://blog.wirearchy.com/what-is-wirearchy/" rel="nofollow">"wirearchy"</a>. Nothing really new, Stafford beer was writing about this 40 years ago, and Stan Savis, the Tofflers and others were writing about the early weak signals 20 years ago .. but we often need new words and new modes of description for new conditions, right ? At any rate, I appreciate your review. I think it captured the high points and through your overlaying of context (religious, pragmatic, aesthetic) added some useful value to my digesting of the key premises of the book. I just finished the book tonight. I obtained my copy at the recent FASTForward09 conference (disclosure: I write for the FASTForward blog) where Dan Rasmus offered the audience a (comprehensive, well-delivered but over-long) presentation based on the book.

I like your review; I think it shows that you read the book carefully.

In my case, I sped through the book pretty quickly. There are parts that are choppy where the style and / or intended prpose and audience seem to shift. The main reason I sped through it is that a lot of it is about transparency and the disruption interconnected people and technology (both employees and customers) are bringing to the strategic challenges of business models, execution and management effectiveness, and this is an area of disruption and change I have been writing and speaking about in the guise of an emerging organizing principle (for both organizational structure and workplace and market dynamics) that I have called “wirearchy”. Nothing really new, Stafford beer was writing about this 40 years ago, and Stan Savis, the Tofflers and others were writing about the early weak signals 20 years ago .. but we often need new words and new modes of description for new conditions, right ?

At any rate, I appreciate your review. I think it captured the high points and through your overlaying of context (religious, pragmatic, aesthetic) added some useful value to my digesting of the key premises of the book.

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