dglenn's Journal

QotD

"The problem is, and always will be, that business needs move faster than innovations in responding to them. We're in a phase now where the fundamental realities of the marketplace -- the concatenation of economic and social factors that define a marketplace -- are moving so fast that it's an ever-shifting target. The 20th century "offline" business model (which is, in turn, derived from the 19th century business model) is bad at adapting to that. The business's needs and requirements, and the marketplaces they move through, will always evolve faster than the tactics the business can come up with to respond to those requirements, and by the time a business has solved the last problem, the next one's come along. Businesses are always fighting the last war." synecdochic, 2008-07-18