{"id":1742,"date":"2014-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/1699\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:00:00","slug":"1699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/1699\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry McGovern: The complexity-simplicity trade off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry McGovern \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerrymcgovern.com\/new-thinking\/complexity-simplicity-trade\">The complexity-simplicity trade off<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the systems organizations give to their employees are usability monstrosities.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this is that senior management just doesn\u2019t care. It has abdicated its responsibility when it comes to technology. It sits there listening to presentations about huge savings if only huge amounts of money are spent. It allocates the budget and walks away, because \u201cit\u2019s technology\u201d and that\u2019s too hard to understand for a senior manager.<\/p>\n<p>The problem goes even deeper. Senior managers don\u2019t care about their salaried employees\u2019 time. I\u2019ve been doing web consulting since 1994 and I have yet to meet a senior manager who really cared about making it easier for employees to do their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry McGovern \u2013 The complexity-simplicity trade off: \u201cMany of the systems organizations give to their employees are usability monstrosities. The reason for this is that senior management just doesn\u2019t care. It has abdicated its responsibility when it comes to technology. It sits there listening to presentations about huge savings if only huge amounts of money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}