The Long-Lost Art Of Making A Buying Decision
Have you ever noticed that the people who can make a decision about a $70,000-dollar-a-year staff member in 20 minutes are the same people who spend endless hours in endless meetings with countless people over the course of months deciding how to spend $50,000 on a piece of hardware or some software? Why the obsession with the buying process? First, the impact a particular technology will have on the organization is usually overestimated from the start. Second, as we've increasingly become an economy of knowledge workers--you know, no tangible products--buying an actual piece of hardware or software programs is a big deal. And third, we're obsessed with the buying process because it's simple and fun--honestly. CMP Network Computing
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Begin all projects with the end in mind. Use this mantra to keep your efforts focused and directed. However, it seems that a casual audit of the practices that go into corporate intranets illustrates that we still haven't learned many of the lessons client/server taught us. Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, writes: "It's a principle that all things are created twice, but not all creations are by conscious design." Many intranet sites out there don't seem to have the luxury of doing it right from the start. The need to deliver solutions ASAP is the busy work that prevents us from stepping back and assessing what we're building. CMP Network Computing
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