Boeing’s Dreamliner delayed because of cultural differences?

jarango — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:34:14 +0000

BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum on questions raised by the most recent delay of the Boeing Dreamliner project:

How much autonomy do you give partners in a global collaborative effort? How much direct control do you need? What about trust? How do you account for differences in culture?

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It is exactly this latter question that this blog aims to explore. These issues affect not only global managers; anyone involved with designing and deploying artifacts on the web is a participant in a global conversation and must take cultural differences into consideration.

Building IA means building local groups

jarango — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:13:58 +0000

Information architects of the world, unite! Writing in the ASIS&T Bulletin, Stacy Surla highlights some of the challenges that IAs around the world are facing in developing the profession’s identity. She includes comments from Jason Hobbs (South Africa), Wolf Nöding (Germany) and Javier Velasco (Chile), IAs who are leading the development of the profession in their respective parts of the world.

Stacy writes:

Face-to-face or across networks, local groups are bringing an ideal into being—a place where people can get together, drink beer and coffee, spread their deliverables out on the table, share encouragement and ideas, and plan the next Big Thing.

The IA Institute has a local groups initiative, which aims to help IAs organize events to help build a spirit of community (and identity) amongst peers. This is an important effort, I encourage you to check it out.

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Boeing’s Dreamliner delayed because of cultural differences?

Building IA means building local groups