There are amusing and horrific stories about the trials and tribulations, with the transfer of associated technologies, and implementation of new systems and architecture. There are lessons we can learn from those who burned the road before us, and those were burned by the flames. Get your fingers ready, the five fundamental considerations for the introduction of new technologies.
What have we learned from Oracle
"The original plan was to ensure the transition of existing IT –Infrastructure for Oracle for a period of three months. E 'three years later, and we think we are almost done with our Oracle implementation are. "Everyone knows it and if so, you have many good companies. Oracle is a powerful engine. And 'high-octane, scalable and flexible architecture was designed to subject the continued growth and integration. So what went wrong?
Often, in anticipation of installing the latest engine and better in other parts of theCars had to be forgotten or overlooked. Make sure you have a new engine and powerful, but the steering wheel is gone. It 'been replaced by a series of point-and-drop-down box choose to allocate exactly the car to rotate with a certain angle. Giving a round of 30 degrees, forty-degree curve, or a shift of 90 degrees, right or left? Simply select the appropriate item from the dropdown menu and you will be clear once again that you want. Gone is the old-fashioned and inaccurate steering wheel,required manual intervention and guidance for the gradual adjustment of the turning point in the process and is installed, the precision of the turning device, which is administered by the mouse. The problem is that there was no talk that the steering rack is sold separately, and that a further six months to take the program. Nobody said that everything would be responsible for driving the cars, a new method of government, they lose the ability to adjust manual on how to learn, and the need to learn moreintuitive and precise time in selecting it. Settings can be made directly on the road to a rotation, with pointing and clicking menu selections, if necessary. The extra time, planning and development, and employee training are sold separately. You see, Oracles sells that powerful engine, not the wheel.
It's not funny or sound familiar? If it sounds familiar, then the humor is bittersweet. If it sounds ridiculous, then you have not tried yet. TheFlying is just one example. Once the steering system is programmed to start introducing simplifications, then the other discoveries. The powerful engine is equipped with a speedometer and tachometer, so you can see the performance and speed of the engine. Not exciting to see that you are only partially exploited in the incredible power of this engine Oracle big? Unfortunately, if you rely on other devices such as signals for the dashboard, air conditioning or radio, then you mustbuild these things themselves. After all, engineers have shown that the engine are made in other ways than anyone else, you have personal settings for climate control, so you have a personal preference for terrestrial or Sirius Satellite Radio. Therefore, you must point and click on objects, menus and radio buttons to suit your personal preferences, and like all kinds of variations. Someone forgot to say that all these functions andSystems must be developed for any use of drivers.
After the dashboard and common facilities are designed, developed and implemented, then starts the next wave of discoveries. The old buttons, knobs and controls are gone. All that has been replaced with the interface in a single device, the mouse. What seemed like a wonderful convenience when he first described to you. All controls are mounted on two fingers of one hand. Once behind the pain of installing allother controls at an additional cost, we note that there may be a little 'difficult to switch between the windows of the car, it sends a command to the roll-up Windows, turn on the air conditioning system, selecting a radio station, and reporting to the series, all at the same time with one device. All these things require a different set of menus, so you must choose your workflow with great care. Otherwise, you can in the back of a truck running while trying to turn off the heat, and turnHoward Stern. Just then, begins to rain, and you will see that the wipers have not yet been codified.
Dear Larry Ellison, please forgive me if my sense of irony, has inadvertently given, and therefore what is perceived as an unflattering comment. It will only make a point about proper planning for the transition of technology. Finally, it is necessary to build a beautiful machine.
What should we do?
1) Be Aggressive
It should be aggressive, ifConstruction of a new technology that provides a competitive advantage. The competitive advantage of the overall system that authorized personnel in the context of being productive. A competitive advantage can be a utility that allows customers and clients become more self-sufficient, like installing the ATM outside the bank to provide the convenience of customers. The competitive advantage that can integrate more functions, partners, or streams of data that enable more intelligentDecisions or effective business models. If your implementation, integration, or the transfer goes to new technologies, a measured and have a significant competitive advantage, then be aggressive for search technology.
2) Take care
If the transfer of technology have an impact on revenue of your company's core competence, then a question of substantial changes carefully. This does not mean that you avoid the improvement of technology. It only means that it is useful to moreCaution when considering the impact and applications, even by a subtle change to the code can be influenced. There are horror stories of companies that implemented the changes produce a harmless billing, and therefore not or invoices for the customer. During this period, the transfer of technology was suddenly reduced income. The result has caused financial hardship for the billing company, and dissatisfied customers who are suddenly moreMonths, the overall billing system as soon as possible billing problems have been solved. This was not only affect the cash flow during the interruption of the village, but it is difficult to maintain relationships with customers as well. Aggressively grow beyond the competitive opportunities for profit and power, but be careful when it comes to implementing the changes that your core business offering, customers might influence regulation or next.
3) Be Quick
Being a guide to make minor changes, and carefullyMonitor the impact. If it is to improve performance, proposals to simplify internal procedures, or to improve customer satisfaction, do not hesitate. Design, small changes, carefully evaluate the changes, and create a coherent planning roll-out extensions. Often, small improvements have the greatest impact on business performance.
4) Be Slow
When it comes to important changes in the architectures or systems that will receive your business, slow runningchange. Often, the basic architecture and functions of society are the most efficient and streamlined. The processes that the maximum benefit, you are the ones that are more and more attention, and often the most developed. Unfortunately, these are also the processes that are usually chosen for the first priority with regard to the implementation of a technology transfer. On the contrary, to avoid the attraction of focusing on familiar ground, and the preservation of the primary processesTransition has been tested for some of the most complex and least frequently used utilities. Focusing on the development of complex and less used functions, there is a huge amount of knowledge gained experience and the least impact on society. There are horror stories too many companies working diligently to transfer the essential processes and then spent months or years, failures caused by the development of a real need to be much less or in part had identifiedprocess.
5) Be Safe
There is no better time to make a variety of potential security must address, as in the design, development and application of new technologies. What personal information to you to manage, process, transmit or store? This does not mean transactions with a credit card or bank account numbers restricted for transfer. Somewhere in the vast archive of data, it is probably important to keep private information on every one of your employees. Employee recordswith social security numbers, bank accounts for direct deposit, the names and addresses, and perhaps also from medical care. Very often we think about the pipeline for our customers, and forget about the gold mine of personal data in our factories. We must not the same protection for our employees?
Data confidentiality of medical data, financial information and personal data. License numbers, credit card numbers or even e-mail correspondenceAddress, phone numbers, all are potential threats to privacy. The threat is not limited to, how people access to information from the outside, or the number of firewall is in place. The threat comes from within, and what kind of information available to employees and partners. How easy it is to watch the customer data and download the information to a thumb drive? How easy it is to copy the entire company database of customer data, account information, orintellectual property? How would it be worth taking a disgruntled employee valuable information to the customer to a competitor?
Es gibt keine bessere Zeit als die Gegenwart zu einer Sicherheits-Experten bewerten die mögliche Verletzung der Privatsphäre haben in Ihrer Organization. If you have customers, credit cards, stored in customer accounts, customer information, intellectual property, financial information, medical information or employee information accessible via computer over a network or printed in filesit's time to check security.
If you're in the midst of preparing for a transformation of technology, design, development, integration, or implementation, is the perfect time to get all the documents associated with a security expert and privacy to verify. If you organize all this information, why not your efforts to protect customers, employees and your company? Directors and management are increasingly held accountable foror ignore in view of potential vulnerabilities in their respective organizations, both to protect people from external threats and to control the actions of disgruntled employees. Reducing the risks for the company and directors of the company, through appropriate and adequate precautions for the expert analysis, control and privacy.
Words of wisdom
"The technology is characterized by two types of people: those who understand what they fail, and dominatedmanage what you do not understand. "
– Putt's Law
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
– Alice Kahn
"This is an evil tendency underlying all our technology to do it – the tendency to what is reasonable, although it is not good."
– Robert Pirsig
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
– R. Buckminster Fuller
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