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So perhaps the biggest question that needs to be asked is 'What is the impact of the IMPACT GENOME PROJECT'?

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

TPB communication 171208 So perhaps the biggest question that needs to be asked is 'What is the impact of the IMPACT GENOME PROJECT'? I was responsible for making a mainframe computer work usefully back in 1967. It represented a big investment ... it was fashionable cutting edge technology ... but it was not doing anything useful. I wanted it to help change the company so that the company was better, and this was achieved by understanding how management and decision making worked. And then in the 1980s there was the PC paradox ... where a huge investment in PCs that made Microsofit wealthy but did virtually nothing for productivity ... until there were digital connections to real engineering and operations at which point productivity took off. Now the big question is how will the latest in technology help to manage and make decisions about today's big issues. I argue that it will help to have some understanding of what has gone wrong over the past 50 years and for this it will help to have some understanding of what connects with what ... and what constraints there are which means that doing anything is bound to fail. This is an exciting project ... but is it perhaps, bound to fail? I hope not! Maybe I can help! Peter Burgess ... http://truevaluemetrics.org