[TOS] Cultural Change Schedule

[Karsten Wade]

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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