http://blogs.gartner.com/steve_prentice/2009/02/09/a-monty-pythonesque-moment/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:16:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.gartner.com/steve_prentice/2009/02/09/a-monty-pythonesque-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Richard Petersen Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:48:21 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/steve_prentice/?p=72#comment-39 Kudos for the Monty Python analogy! Better "what have the Romans done for us?" than the "Cheese Shop" tech vendor! But to your point, the problem is that Gen Y employees are telling stories and having conversations, which lie outside realm of .ppt and .doc, but as John Seely Brown pointed out, stories and conversations lie at the heart of knowledge work and information dissemination. Our Web 2.0 tools need to not only facilitate the conversations, but close the loop - documenting without ossifying, and to provide measures of effectiveness. Of the X people who read this comment, Y found it useful. What's the ROI? Hard to say, but the Romans didn't ask about the ROI of roads and sewers either ;-) Kudos for the Monty Python analogy! Better “what have the Romans done for us?” than the “Cheese Shop” tech vendor! But to your point, the problem is that Gen Y employees are telling stories and having conversations, which lie outside realm of .ppt and .doc, but as John Seely Brown pointed out, stories and conversations lie at the heart of knowledge work and information dissemination. Our Web 2.0 tools need to not only facilitate the conversations, but close the loop – documenting without ossifying, and to provide measures of effectiveness. Of the X people who read this comment, Y found it useful. What’s the ROI? Hard to say, but the Romans didn’t ask about the ROI of roads and sewers either

]]> http://blogs.gartner.com/steve_prentice/2009/02/09/a-monty-pythonesque-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Nick Jones Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:54:48 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/steve_prentice/?p=72#comment-38 Maybe if Generation Y hasn't done measurable anything for him, he was investing in the wrong things? Maybe if Generation Y hasn’t done measurable anything for him, he was investing in the wrong things?

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