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The things that surprise you are good indicators of how innovative
you are.
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Amateurs
discuss technology, professionals discuss process.
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"Innovations" that do not improve your process more than 3- to 10- fold
are mere improvements and not likely worth upsetting the status
quo to implement.
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A
characteristic of Industrial Age processes is that information
and decision making are captives of the physical structure.
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Information-rich
processes are characterized by and sustained with diversity.
When diversity is lost, processes typically fail.
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A
brute-force solution wastes money and effort while remaining
inferior to more clever solutions.
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All
the information about a system is contained in the system.
Extracting and acting on the information, however, is the
most difficult task
facing decision makers.
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The
most trivial type of information in an information-rich process
is the location of the physical elements.
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Prediction
and causality have useful meanings in Industrial Age processes
but are problematic for information-rich processes.
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Information
Technology has about as much to do with Information Age processes
as the internal combustion engine has to do with
Industrial Age processes (See Rule #2).
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The
Laws of Physics still hold. Particularly for information.
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If
you want a new idea, read an old book.