Is anyone unfamiliar with the paranoid second-guessing induced by unanswered SMS texts?
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A note: It’s called out-of-office reply, an unabashed acknowledgement that business is being conducted here.
(via Auto SMS: An out-of-office reply for your Android phone - TNW Apps)
cosupport reblogs from 37signals: The End of the IT Department
“The problem with IT departments seems to be that they’re set up as a forced internal vendor. From the start, they have a monopoly on the “computer problem” – such monopolies have a tendency to produce the customer service you’d expect from the US Postal Service. The IT department has all the power, they’re not going anywhere (at least not in the short term), and their customers are seen as mindless peons. There’s no feedback loop for improvement.”
(emphasis added by Rank & File.)
When should an IT organization adopt that pesky but persistent employee technology request?
As soon as possible.
…the early stages of the hype cycle have… the most differential value… However, in the slope of enlightenment and the plateau of productivity there is little or no differential value since everyone else is doing it.“…The lesson of this story has been known in military circles for a long time… if you wait until the activity is well known and defined enough to be easily and effectively implemented (the plateau of productivity), it’ll provide little differential benefit to you.”
Fortune favours the brave.
