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The stifiling grip of corporate oligarchies

I can understand the fear. (democratized content creation = the deluge) As I wrote previously (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/6968) I believe the advent of the printing press (Guttenberg) represented a content creation/knowledge revolution. It democratized the written word and lifted it from the elite hands of the clergy and placed it accessibly in the hands of the general public. If we equate hierarchy in corporations with a monarchical instantiation of knowledge control then a power shift or revolution is bound to happen...its a logical historical cycle. And this power shift, rather than diminishing the value of the contents, has the potential to make contents more accessible, with quicker delivery and comprehensible to more people, thereby creating greater value. It's not messianic, but rather a revolution and I fail to see why we shouldn't think of this kind of shift as potentially transformational in the Enterprise.

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