http://sidewise.biz/2009/07/skills/ A side-wise view of business and the enterprise Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:04:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://sidewise.biz/2009/07/skills/comment-page-1/#comment-58 theterrible Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:34:07 +0000 http://sidewise.biz/?p=101#comment-58 Any basic rule was a heuristic decision at some stage. So machines allow us to start at higher level. Yes, it requires new skills and yes, it is painful to change. There is nothing wrong and new with this. The average quality of your suit, produced by machine, is much better than quality of the average suit that was handcrafted 250 years ago. Well, the best suits are still produced manually. Do we have less of the best suits than it was 250 years ago. Probably not. There are 2 reasons for this: machine frees human from routine allowing more time to improve skills; with time machines are becoming better ("learning" new skills like humans) too. As for non repeatable processes I would normally prefer to make my tea in the electric kettle to using open fire. 30% of "non-automatable" process would include different processes today and 10 years from now. Probably automation is the next step after creation of rules. Any basic rule was a heuristic decision at some stage. So machines allow us to start at higher level. Yes, it requires new skills and yes, it is painful to change. There is nothing wrong and new with this. The average quality of your suit, produced by machine, is much better than quality of the average suit that was handcrafted 250 years ago. Well, the best suits are still produced manually. Do we have less of the best suits than it was 250 years ago. Probably not. There are 2 reasons for this: machine frees human from routine allowing more time to improve skills; with time machines are becoming better (”learning” new skills like humans) too. As for non repeatable processes I would normally prefer to make my tea in the electric kettle to using open fire. 30% of “non-automatable” process would include different processes today and 10 years from now. Probably automation is the next step after creation of rules.

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