{"id":1892,"date":"2015-03-23T01:39:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T06:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2015-03-02T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:45:11","slug":"it-is-the-people-not-the-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/03\/it-is-the-people-not-the-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"It is the People, not the Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>We try to relearn this again: people have to use technology in some &#8220;smart&#8221; way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2015\/02\/09\/big-data-failure-blame-corporate-culture\">Money goes to big data projects, but not much comes back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where have I heard this before? Oh yes, it was with fill-in-the-blank-with-one-of-those-new-technologies-that-was-going-to-change-the-world-by-itself. People use technology. Well, sometimes we use it, and sometimes we use it in clever, well-thought-out ways. And then there are all those other times.<\/p>\n<p>Big data is just like all other technologies in that it won&#8217;t save my world all by itself. I have to do something. I must have an idea or a purpose or a goal or something other than a desire to put a technology on my resume.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a rule of thumb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If someone does not show the before and after of their technology use, they proceeded without thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Proceeding without thought can be dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We try to relearn this again: people have to use technology in some &#8220;smart&#8221; way. Money goes to big data projects, but not much comes back. Where have I heard this before? Oh yes, it was with fill-in-the-blank-with-one-of-those-new-technologies-that-was-going-to-change-the-world-by-itself. People use technology. Well, sometimes we use it, and sometimes we use it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,3,50],"tags":[132,133,126,172],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-people","category-technology","category-thinking","tag-management","tag-people","tag-technology","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}