Borg Meets Blog

 

One of the benefits of project management is the technique that allows us to estimate and predict the future. Limited as they are, they give us an edge and enable us to increase the chance of project success. On a large scale, they allow us to provide meaningful information to others such as corporate planners and our customers. With that in mind, here's an article that is guaranteed to make you think. After all, if every thing has a future, then what is it for project management?

Don't look now, but the fundamental landscape of how we practice project management is shifting.

Borg, meet blog.

As fans of Star Trek know, the Borg is more than just the name of an enemy spaceship cube. Trekkies recognize the Borg as a collective mass of perfectly integrated intelligence. The Borg is portrayed as a huge machine that's bent on a goal of getting more and more information. The only thing bigger than the Borg is it's ego! It perceived that it knew the best way in all things, and anyone approaching it was sternly warned: "Resistance is futile!"

On the other hand, the blog (short for weB log) is literally a collection of online posts that often take the form of an online diary. Diaries have been around for years, but blogs by comparison are intended to be read by anyone on the internet. Millions of us have tossed aside the popular concerns about invasions of privacy and have …

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