i’m tired.
i mean it. i’m really fed up.
i can make bank transfers, and pay bills, and shop online from my cell phone. why then can’t i access a file stored on a sharepoint installation from that same device? why can’t i access the latest updates from members of my team on our project from an enterprise 2.0 solution? why can’t i do it all pain free — just as i do my online banking (or my shopping at express)? don’t tell me there are security concerns about accessing proprietary information outside of the corporate firewall. i don’t want to hear it; it’s just an excuse.
i need knowledge when i need it — not where or when you want to allow me access to it. i’m interfacing with clients all the time — hardly ever at my office — and i need to have the right information available to me so that i can help them make informed decisions. i can’t be bothered to jump through hoops just to get that information.
i walk around with an iphone in my pocket all day, and i can hardly use it for more than pulling up a lightsaber, finding waldo, and making fart noises. it’s unacceptable.
if you work in enterprise security, i’m holding you personally accountable. for far too long you have lagged behind the curve when it comes to the rest of the technology world.
it’s time that you finally catch up.
#1 by OldGeek on 9 April 2010 - 9:31 am
You’re absolutely right!
Information should be accessible from everywhere – especially the intellectual capital of your firm. In fact, you should just publish it on a publicly accessible website.
Think of the money you could save your firm by just doing away with your corporate information security department! Information would also flow so much more smoothly.
I look forward to seeing whatever it is you sell published freely. Think of all the money my firm will save by not having to pay you for it!
We will all save more money as information flows more freely, and we will all be less troubled. Go for it!
#2 by john on 9 April 2010 - 10:28 am
i’ll bite…
perhaps we should just give things away for free:
http://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp/1401322905
the problem is that information is only information. just because you have the intellectual capital of someone else, doesn’t mean you have the experience. my partner in crime can show you all of the math that goes on behind his resource optimization models – but that certainly doesn’t mean that you can build them.
but getting back to the security thing — how is an enterprise’s intellectual capital any more valuable than a bank’s entire infrastructure? how come people send wire transfers every day, and wirelessly log into their online banks with SSL and don’t have any problems? i’m seriously asking: what’s the difference between the world’s financial systems, and a company’s intranet?
#3 by Gianpaolo Baglione on 13 April 2010 - 10:53 pm
I think “intellectual capital” is a suspect concept to begin with. Money only has value because you can give it to someone in exchange for something. As soon as you have an original idea and share it, you’ve completely devalued your currency- it’s only valuable so long as no one else can know what you know. The VALUE comes from the doing. Lots of people can talk trash, but not everyone can back it up.