TomThomson (2/4/2016)
Eric M Russell (2/4/2016)
Some good ideas (like open source software, open IT floor plans, and telecommuting) come out of startups and are adopted by the larger corporate establishment. However, much of the "big picture" and "radical change" concepts have proven not to pan out from a business perspective. There probably have been more failed startups than have been good practical ideas coming out of startups.A few misconceptins there, I think.
Telecommuting came out of fairly big established companies, not startups. ICL (with 20,000 employees worldwide at the time, so hardly a startup) for example, had people telecommuting in the late 60s and early 70s
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Open IT floor plans came out of people without a clue how to get productive behaviour from employees, one of the worst mistakes ever made by industry. It is still reducing productivity in most software companies, because
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As for open source software, I worked on the UK's Alvey Flagship project as the project's software architect (my colleague Brian Procter was the chief system architect, and my boss Colin skelton was the project manager) back in the late 80s.
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- are you going to tell me IBM was a startup in 1968?
Actually it was the Greeks or Chinese who invented remote office commuting through the use of carrier pigeons, perhaps as early as 2,000 B.C.
Also, one could argue that the ancient Egyptions or Sumerians invented the open IT office design.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho