tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359578028049956721.post4043663569317585954..comments2024-01-29T02:42:27.287-08:00Comments on Inquiries Into Alignment: Does Technology Create Transparency or Mirages?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359578028049956721.post-33308418574629582962008-08-23T17:01:00.000-07:002008-08-23T17:01:00.000-07:00Andy, Good post but I disagree with your basic pre...Andy, Good post but I disagree with your basic premise. At the end of the day, technology in all of its different forms is just a set of tools that we can use. It's what we do with these tools that really matters. As you pointed out, technology has been used to build some incredible smoke & mirror machines that have hidden the truth (Enron, Worldcom, etc.). My disagreement with you comes not from the (hopefully) small number of cases in which folks are actively trying to hid things, but rather from the much larger number of cases where technology was implemented incorrectly and ended up giving the wrong messages. One case in point would be Levi, the jeans company. They were at the top of their game in the mid-90's and their IT systems told them that they were doing fine. However, because they were measuring the wrong things, they got knocked off of their high perch.<BR/><BR/>I guess all tools are only as good as the people who are using them.<BR/><BR/> - Dr. Jim Anderson<BR/> Blue Elephant Consulting<BR/>http://itproductmanagement.blogspot.com/Dr. Jim Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07183706138486154725noreply@blogger.com