Topic: Japanese life
"...busy-ness is part of the problem"
IT needs to slow down: guruZDNet Australia 15 March 2004
"The busier you are the less able the company will reach their long term goals. When you take the 'slack' out of your organisation you don?t have time to change," DeMarco added.
While admitting that his answer to this problem was simplistic, DeMarco highlighted Japan?s efficiency-obsessed economy in the 1980s as an example of his theory.
"We saw what Japan was doing in the economy in the 80s and we flinched. They worked harder, longer and were better educated?as we found out this didn?t work out so well for Japan. Since 1990, Japan hasn?t been so great," DeMarco said.
He explained that while Japan still had the high work ethic of the 80s, and were still "brilliant and very bright," their over-efficient processes had been at the core of one of the longest recessions in history.
