This is quite a popular and solid saying around here. In many ways it is very true and the proper way to go about things. Well, when it comes to technology - it is quite the opposite actually. Quite the opposite!
Being at the Office 2.0 event in San Francisco proves this rule quite wrong and very difficult to follow. Any type of technology innovation or creativity require that you do not follow the "If it ain't broken, do not fix it" rule. We have numerous examples of failures when this rule is closely followed by technology oriented companies - let's remember Henry Ford's attitude towards those newer, shinier and better models back in the days... We can come up with a lot more examples like that. Fortunately our industry is the one that is not following that rule and this is why we are going ahead with larger steps than the rest of the business sectors and industries. Usually all newer gadgets and toys are presented or easily spotted on the conventions or events like the one we just attended - Office 2.0.
Well, this year I was quite amazed and stunned to see a couple of things - the first and by far the most funny thing I saw this year was a picture of a participant in the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco working on a PC running Windows 98. I am not kidding! Please look at the picture below:
The picture is taken and owned by Gadi Shamia (http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/ ) during one of the sessions and almost killed everybody in the audience when it was displayed on the wall. If it Ain't Broken, Do not fix it! Get this Steve Jobs; Apple cannot get its... stuff together to produce a decent sequel of the iPhone's OS or the hardware components of the new iPhone from one year to another, not talking about 10 full years.
I will be publishing quite a lot of articles based on this week's trip to the Bay Area. There were many events and sessions which the WordFrame team visited. Some of the highlights include the Wachovia and GE presentation as well as the VC's panel. Tesla's and the Legal Session were among the most negative ones for me regarding the actual application of office 2.0 technologies and the attitude towards it by the legal sector. The implementation and the usage of QuickBase at Tesla Motor Co was not impressive and kind of alarming actually.
I want to make a couple of important remarks before I get to the list of the sessions and what we learned from them. I certainly learned a lot and find this event quite useful. The most important thing for me was the validation of the WordFrame's technology, customer satisfaction, experience and future plans. The future upcoming release of the WordFrame as a Platform and not as just an online social media application is an important validation, isn't it!
In general - kudos for Ismael, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks and Office 2.0 team, superb wireless connectivity supplied by Covad and SwissCom, not a single problem with the bandwidth or connectivity which I can report. Even a tiny, little yet, hugely annoying detail as the power points for the conference attendees was carefully taken care of - at no point in time anyone had an issue with the power points, notebooks, pens, refreshment drinks or event personnel. Great Job Ismael and Office 2.0 Event teams!
Being at the Office 2.0 event in San Francisco proves this rule quite wrong and very difficult to follow. Any type of technology innovation or creativity require that you do not follow the "If it ain't broken, do not fix it" rule. We have numerous examples of failures when this rule is closely followed by technology oriented companies - let's remember Henry Ford's attitude towards those newer, shinier and better models back in the days... We can come up with a lot more examples like that. Fortunately our industry is the one that is not following that rule and this is why we are going ahead with larger steps than the rest of the business sectors and industries. Usually all newer gadgets and toys are presented or easily spotted on the conventions or events like the one we just attended - Office 2.0.
Well, this year I was quite amazed and stunned to see a couple of things - the first and by far the most funny thing I saw this year was a picture of a participant in the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco working on a PC running Windows 98. I am not kidding! Please look at the picture below:
The picture is taken and owned by Gadi Shamia (http://gadishamia.wordpress.com/ ) during one of the sessions and almost killed everybody in the audience when it was displayed on the wall. If it Ain't Broken, Do not fix it! Get this Steve Jobs; Apple cannot get its... stuff together to produce a decent sequel of the iPhone's OS or the hardware components of the new iPhone from one year to another, not talking about 10 full years.
I will be publishing quite a lot of articles based on this week's trip to the Bay Area. There were many events and sessions which the WordFrame team visited. Some of the highlights include the Wachovia and GE presentation as well as the VC's panel. Tesla's and the Legal Session were among the most negative ones for me regarding the actual application of office 2.0 technologies and the attitude towards it by the legal sector. The implementation and the usage of QuickBase at Tesla Motor Co was not impressive and kind of alarming actually.
I want to make a couple of important remarks before I get to the list of the sessions and what we learned from them. I certainly learned a lot and find this event quite useful. The most important thing for me was the validation of the WordFrame's technology, customer satisfaction, experience and future plans. The future upcoming release of the WordFrame as a Platform and not as just an online social media application is an important validation, isn't it!
In general - kudos for Ismael, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks and Office 2.0 team, superb wireless connectivity supplied by Covad and SwissCom, not a single problem with the bandwidth or connectivity which I can report. Even a tiny, little yet, hugely annoying detail as the power points for the conference attendees was carefully taken care of - at no point in time anyone had an issue with the power points, notebooks, pens, refreshment drinks or event personnel. Great Job Ismael and Office 2.0 Event teams!
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