It's Broken, Let's Fix It
Subtitle: The Zeitgeist and Modern Enterprise
By: by Gerard M. Beuckelaer
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783642086724; 9783662048900
Subjects: Computer science
Description: We used to have this saying: "If it ain't broken, don't fix it." It was a powerful piece of wisdom. But then, the re-engineering fashion emerged and that changed everything. This book describes the behavior of the "creature" enterprise as it evolves in an in-creasingly complex universe. What is this elusive creature really like? Are we able to understand its survival and reproduction mechanisms and its interaction with humanity and culture? The book offers a rather merciless analysis of the way things really work. It does so from a human perspective, as we, the people, are at the same time the perpetrators and the victims in the corporate game. The objective is not to indoctrinate or even convince, but to stimulate thought: Let's try to understand these things, and then find ways to improve them, without breaking more than we already have.
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