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Two things really struck me in this article. The first was the graph of sales over time. The current boom in sales is the biggest and longest - only the boom fr
by daddylonglegs 7y ago
Two things really struck me in this article. The first was the graph of sales over time. The current boom in sales is the biggest and longest - only the boom from 1985 to the mid-90s comes close in duration. All the other booms seem to have ended in a sharp drop in sales.
The second is the continuing trend - in both private industry and government - to atomise organisations by outsourcing important work. The immediate, formal needs of the organisation will be met by the contractual requirements but informal communications and long term development of people and institutional knowledge aren't paid for and won't happen.
- jdkee 7y agoE.g. NASA. https://theconversation.com/nasas-reliance-on-outsourcing-launches-causes-a-dilemma-for-the-space-agency-44013 https://theconversation.com/nasas-reliance-on-outsourcing-la...
- itronitron 7y ago>> outsourcing important work. That reflects the management trend of seeing themselves as the customer and not the developer (of the company). What better way to reduce the number of opinions that must be considered than to turn your employees into service providers?