> On Dec 21, 2015 9:51 AM, "Atom Powers" <atom.pow...@gmail.com > <mailto:atom.pow...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > A business culture organization is one where you do work because it is > profitable to do the work. You build products because you want people > to buy those products. Examples: Comcast, Dell, Oracle, and almost > everybody with publicly traded stock. > > A craft culture organization is one where you do work because it > improves the product. You build products because you want to build the > best thing. Examples: Amazon, Google, Lego, and often private > companies. >
On 2015-12-21 09:03, Atom Powers wrote: > Of course business cultures try to make the best product they can (as long as > it is cost effective) and craft cultures try to make money (on the best > products they can make). It isn't a black-and-white distinction. You could > probably also call this a top-down (business) vs bottom-up (craft) culture. > I don't buy this... To me craft resonate with Maturity Level 1 (※) you're playing around, learning, with no care for cost nor efficiency. "Business" resonate with Maturity Level 3 (※) and up with understanding of costs, profit, long and short term goals etc... Yes there are people doing "business" at each level of maturity, and some businesses move through levels while other cater for different levels in different departments (eg: R&D vs Production, startups vs established market). There is no such thing as "the" best product, products are design for a specific need for a given life cycle. Everything real-world product is a compromise (even mustard!). For example, what is "the best network switch"? For people who don't need VLANs in their home, the 60$ one, for my own home the 200$ one, but I hope my ISP is using the 3000$ one an has two of them. ※ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model#Levels -- http://yves.zioup.com gpg: 4096R/32B0F416 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
