[TOS] Cultural Change Schedule

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Two nuances here:
1) I agree the smaller the organization, the more efficient it can be.
 It then depends on how recently the company was formed and how
effective the founding management is at pushing the pace.
2) Silicon Valley is notable for its differences from the rust belt.
In this context, Government Contracting (my point of reference) is
more similar to rust belt than when the moon was the focused target.

2011/2/10 Karsten Wade - kwade at redhat.com:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:35:42AM -0500, Mel Chua wrote:
>> On 02/10/2011 09:38 AM, tosmaillist.neophyte_rep at ordinaryamerican.net wrote:
>> > Just a note I should have added to other discussions earlier:
>> >
>> > As a retired worker bee at several large corporations, I continue to
>> > be amazed at the ambitiousness of your schedules.
>>
>> Wow. Thanks for that insight - it's fascinating to see the timeline of
>> that sort of process in other places.
>
> My inside-of-a-corporation experience starts in 1997, so I'm clearly
> influenced by the dot-boom & bust.
>
> I think the cycle described is, yes, accurate but in some private
> industry has been accelerated to be about three times faster than
> described, so about three+ years for an idea to take hold in an
> enterprise or small to medium business (SMB.) Some of this is due to
> the technologies being easier to prototype through production, and
> some is due to the experiences and expectations of the mid-tier
> workforce. The sort of workforce that Gary Hamel talks about here:
>
> http://opensource.com/business/10/9/facebook-generation-vs-fortune-500
>
> Currently my rough thinking on
> timeline-to-cultural-change/organization is like this:
>
> FOSS = 6 to 18 months
> ACAD = 5 to 7 years
> CORP = 3 to 5 years
>       Enterprise = 5 years
>       SMB = 3 years
>       Start-up = 6 to 18 months
>
> - Karsten
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