the straitjacket
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2015.11.13
I'm constantly amazed at how difficult it is to break free of the straitjacket of the immediately urgent. That is, the limitations placed on a software organization by the need to meet the immediate goals of profit or even simply meeting current client demand. The two things that suffer as a result are innovation and strategy. And if you listen to Peter Drucker, those are the key activities that define a company.
Happily, this is an area where a number of very smart people are doing some very interesting work in this field.