I love it when a plan comes together… or at least, I like to watch someone put a long term plan together and execute it – especially when I am along for the ride.
I’ve been told that I’m too impatient when it comes to proposing and executing strategic organizational and product movement. Perhaps that’s true. Sometimes the wait is internal inertia, sometimes it is for technology to catch up with the science fiction, and sometimes it’s waiting for the market to emerge.
Seeing the market before it emerges is what differentiates revolutionary plans from incremental plans. While revolutionary plans come together on the backs of incremental gains, those gains are shaped and directed by a vision.
Your digital lifestyle
OK, this is going to sound like an advertisement, but I’m looking at it from a strategic roadmap and product management perspective. Also, I already have a lot of this stuff lying around, so I’d like to see it work! Now, onward…
Whether you knew it or not, the first thing to make progress toward the “paperless” (or perhaps “virtual”) anything was your house. The office has too much inertia and weighty processes holding it back to really embrace the digital vision wholeheartedly. It will move that direction, but nowhere near as quickly as your own household.
That’s largely because you choose your own digital destiny. New sexy products become available rapidly and the adoption curve for certain new technology items is based both on peer pressure and the desire for shiny objects. Because of this, your house is very likely more advanced than your office.