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Have a Business Change Problem? Understand It? Think Again.

Yesterday, in the course of congratulating my son Gary Yablon on his graduation from Rowan University, I interwove a story about how hard it can be to make a living in a changing business. I also made a few points about expectations; the reason it’s hard to be a computer consultant is that people now believe they can manage their own computers.

In large part, that’s become true. But when things are beyond your understanding, it’s time to call in an expert. The issue is this: how do you know what you don’t know?

Due Process? Not How US Congress Sees the Internet

How’d you like to live in a country where you had no right to due process under the law? You know: a place where some government official decides you’re naughty and punishes you on the spot, with no chance to defend yourself.

A place like: The United States?

It’s not a law yet, and given how little time there is left in the current session of Congress this bill, like this one, almost certainly won’t become a law, but the United States Senate has before it a bill that would make it possible for your web site to be taken off line immediately if the US Attorney General decided you were participating in “infringing activities”.

Want to Sell Your Old Software? That May Now Be Illegal.

When I was in the publishing business, I received an amazing amount of software from companies that wanted me to write about their stuff in IYM Software Review. The pile got huge; it literally lined the walls of a small room in my home, stacked five boxes high all the way around the room.

A time came when I needed to get rid of all those boxes, and I approached a local library about them taking the software off my hands. My idea was that they could create an archive of software development, and be one of the few places in the world where people could come to research that topic.

United States Congress Endorses Virtual VIP, Answer Guy !

There are lots of reasons to contract out pieces of the work that keep your business in business. We’re talking flexibility issues, liability issues, expert-availability issues, and more.

But it can be hard to know who to hire as you execute business change. You really no more want to spend your days continuously scouring the earth for talent than you want the liability of having employees sitting idly on your payroll.

Data, Privacy, The Law, And A Mess You Can’t Clean Up

I’m all for privacy.

To be honest, privacy is a relatively new phenomenon sociologically and absent issues like identity theft and stealing from other simply by having their private data and knowing how to misuse it privacy shouldn’t really be that big a deal; just don’t do anything you’re ashamed of. But in the Internet / electronic age there’s a need to protect information. Privacy matters.

But as anyone who knows anything about the technological practicalities of privacy will tell you, there’s really no such thing; data systems will always get breached, and the best path to privacy isn’t about technology so much as knowing how technology you create will get used, and by whom.

Senator: “OK Some TV Isn’t Free. But … Not the Olympics!”

How can US Senators be so unclear about the meaning of the laws they write?

Today Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, who not coincidentally chairs the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked NBC to explain why certain Olympic events, available on NBCOlympics.com, can only be viewed there after you prove you have a subscription to a pay-TV service.

Really?

Let’s see:

  • NBC’s ownership of paid-only television channels to augment their over-the-air broadcast stations was approved by the United States Congress. Congress didn’t think approving that was antitrust

Congress, Nicholas Kristof, Health Insurance and Business Change

Why is Nicholas Kristof so smart?

Because he says what he means. I admire this.

In today’s New York Times, Mr. K cuts to the core of the problem in U.S. health insurance; the people who are in charge of the changes don’t understand the problem. Please click that link and read what Kristof has to say. Track back through here, too, while you’re at it.

Most business change works this way. Nothing happens until the people in charge actually feel the issue for themselves, and then (and only then), they take action.





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