I’m going to ramble off the techie path for a sec and into a broader issue of creativity, brainstorming, focus, and goal-setting. (Still awake out there?)
Being the geek friend of many non-geek people, I have a pretty good idea on when someone’s interested in hearing more about my latest technology crush or not, but what happens when it comes down to business?
When you’re working with an organization who is happily living in their 1998-like technology existence, even though their customers and employees have moved past these frameworks.
When, for example, your client continues to create fill-in forms using Excel, saving them on their network drive (plus their home drive and local drive “just in case”), emailing them around for everyone to filling out and spending way too much time trying to devise naming conventions so they can keep their version one separate from their co-worker’s first revisions to version 1, etc…
*sigh*
So many problems, so many solutions. It can be overwhelming. But, just remember, almost any small improvement can snowball into larger improvements down the road. It’s all about the baby steps. Instead of tackling a systematic overhaul of a major system, start with something smaller. And then, even smaller than that. Go on, how small can you make it?
