There was a time when 10 and 12 speeds were a wonderful thing.\u00a0 In fact, road bikes were routinely called 10 speed bikes.\u00a0 Today, I still ride what is called a 10 speed, but it\u2019s actually 20 if you directly compare it with the 10 speeds of the 1980\u2019s.\u00a0 As metallurgy has advanced, cycling manufacturers have been able to make thinner and thinner cogs to use with these \u201cspeeds\u201d basically allowing them to fit more on the rear while every few years.\u00a0 When I raced in college, 8 speeds (16 total) was the leading edge.\u00a0 Today, 11 (22 total) is a norm.\u00a0 Many cyclists actually wonder if more is always better.\u00a0 What you get is more gears.\u00a0 This does not mean that your biggest gear is bigger or your smallest gear is smaller.\u00a0 What it does is gives you more in the middle, and for a cyclist going uphill at a 12% grade, finding the perfect gear is really quite important.<\/p>\n
But there are also drawbacks.\u00a0 In making the cogs smaller, they are more prone to \u201cmissed shifts.\u201d\u00a0 For a cyclist using a mechanical chain (as opposed to cars), this simply means that thin chains with thin cogs sometimes miss their targets, creating a \u201cstall\u201d while you\u2019re riding and a loss of momentum.\u00a0 Again, for a cyclist riding uphill at 12%, this would be a fairly annoying problem.<\/p>\n
Back to the end users:\u00a0 One of the most frequent service delivery problems that I see these days is the completely disorganized attack of employee data sources.\u00a0 Well organized data, cataloged, aged, and well written is a great thing.\u00a0 But so many organizations have multiple data points in multiple data sources.\u00a0 For the employee searching for information on the employee assistance plan, you want them to be able to enter any number of contact points (call center, generalist, web) and get the exact same response.\u00a0 In cycling terms, a perfectly executed gear shift.\u00a0 However, many organizations are sitting around grappling with multiple pieces of data, some of which are 1, 2, and 3 years old, and any employee doing a search might get any one of these up to date or out of date documents.\u00a0 Any person they call (help desk or generalist) would have the same problem.\u00a0 This is obviously the missed shift.<\/p>\n
More is not always better.\u00a0 In fact, the phrase \u201cless is more\u201d applies here.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good thing to have a lot of data available, but the point where you are unable to manage all of that data effectively and present an organized portal to your end user, you\u2019re in trouble.<\/p>\n
(ok, these analogies suck, but I want to talk about bikes, ok?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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