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Lean supply chain is maybe not the best analogy, because suppliers are limited, their properties are known, and deals and optimizations are made in advance. Kno
by sooheon 4y ago
Lean supply chain is maybe not the best analogy, because suppliers are limited, their properties are known, and deals and optimizations are made in advance. Knowledge foraging is very different in that knowledge supply is constantly shifting and basically infinite, and by definition you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.
You can request your page to be indexed and your product to be listed, but so can a million other suppliers, so we return to the problem of how to prioritize and distill information when someone asks for something.
- wpietri 4y agoI'm not saying the supply chain is the best analogy. I'm saying that in that context, "push" and "pull" have very specific meanings, and that's the one I'm using here. I agree that distilling information is challenging. Challenging enough that places from Google to Wirecutter to Consumer Reports make good livings from doing that. But advertising makes that problem worse, not better.