Of Vision and National Infrastructure
It is with great interest that I have listened to the ongoing debate surrounding the development of a National Broadband network in Australia - and here I should note that I have no particular leaning to either of the major political parties. I think that both are far more driven by dogma than by national interest and the needs of the voting public.
However, the decision to build a national broadband network is the right thing to do. It is very disappointing, therefore, to hear the Liberal party question this initiative on the basis of whether or not it will make a profit. When did it become the responsibility of the Government to make a profit - particularly on national infrastructure. Today the claim is that the Government has no mandate from the Australian voting public to build such an infrastructure. Hmmm - I wonder whether any Government has ever had a specific mandate to build roads or rail networks. The national broadband is a key capability to enable effective development of Australian industry. Our current national network is archaic.
Of Accountants, Project Managers and Long Term Thinking
During the past week I was asked to sit in a value management workshop for the design of a new facility for emergency management. While sitting in the workshop I was struck by the short term viewpoints which seem to dominate our thinking as a society. As discussed elsewhere in this website, the design of new working environments needs to incorporate human considerations in its design. There is a fine balance between form and function and the need to provide work environments in which humans can act and work effectively for sustained periods of time. This is no more evident than in the context of emergency management centres where high information workloads are combined with long hours and high impact decision to create difficult working environments.
During the workshop I was struck, however, by the dominance of short term thinking which seems to dominate our present modes of thinking.
Beige Thinking
Homo sapein sapein has made amazing leaps in the last 6000 years. The rate of innovation in modern times is nothing less than astonishing. In the internet age a full technology cycle is now somewhere around 3 years. So much of this advance happened in western countries but somewhere in the last 10 years a fascinating new influence has infiltrated its way into western nations, including Australia. This influence has acted to suppress innovation, to deride original thought and to suggest instead that watching other people living in a house or fighting to rise to supremacy on a desert island is actually more enjoyable than learning, listening to music, reading a good book or spending time with good friends.
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