On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:35:42AM -0500, Mel Chua wrote: > On 02/10/2011 09:38 AM, tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > > Just a note I should have added to other discussions earlier: > > > > As a retired worker bee at several large corporations, I continue to > > be amazed at the ambitiousness of your schedules. > > Wow. Thanks for that insight - it's fascinating to see the timeline of > that sort of process in other places.
My inside-of-a-corporation experience starts in 1997, so I'm clearly influenced by the dot-boom & bust. I think the cycle described is, yes, accurate but in some private industry has been accelerated to be about three times faster than described, so about three+ years for an idea to take hold in an enterprise or small to medium business (SMB.) Some of this is due to the technologies being easier to prototype through production, and some is due to the experiences and expectations of the mid-tier workforce. The sort of workforce that Gary Hamel talks about here: http://opensource.com/business/10/9/facebook-generation-vs-fortune-500 Currently my rough thinking on timeline-to-cultural-change/organization is like this: FOSS = 6 to 18 months ACAD = 5 to 7 years CORP = 3 to 5 years Enterprise = 5 years SMB = 3 years Start-up = 6 to 18 months - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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