In my organization there are a lot of relatively smart people; college educated, technical folks who understand complex systems. The challenge I have seen is getting them to “buy in” to a new way of doing things. As a SharePoint and web 2.0 person, getting others, the types mentioned above, to engage and embrace the new technologies has been a challenge. You could place some blame on me for not forcing the issue. However, force is never a good way to convert.
Failure however is a great conversion tool. This group was raised on the “C:” drive and understand and are familiar with the digital junkyard known as the “shared drive”. Although it would be devastating to some, I would like to see the “shared drive” crash. Then I could go back and say, “Well, if you had moved your files to the cloud, SharePoint etc. you would not have lost all that work.”
Tell me again where did you say you saved that file? Can you email the latest version of the spread sheet… Pain to my ears…..
