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By: Espen
 a reply to Human Development as a Metaphor for Business-IT Maturityby Espen on Jan 03, 2008 - 03:35 PM read 161 times Source: http://itorganization2017.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/human-... |
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Now there’s a metaphor I like, though the use of the figure there implies that the relationship between IT and Business over time will revert back to infancy (or at least infantility) again.
In the spirit of the hour, here is Dave Barry’s take on human development (from http://pakulakmadness.blogspot.com/2006/04/male-midlife-crisis.html):
AGE… PHASE…. INTERESTS
0-2 ……Infancy… …..Pooping
3-9 …….Innocence ….Guns
10-13 ….Awareness… Sex
14-20 ….Emancipation…. Sex
21-29 ….Empowerment…. Sex
30-39 …..Attainment….. Sex
40-65 ….MIDLIFE CRISIS OCCURS HERE
66-Death …..Contemplation…. Pooping
Now, this pertains more to individuals (IT or business careers?) than organizations, but since we live in a time where science increasingly look at interactions between many small pieces rather than trying to chop things up into finite elements…
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