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Towards Web of Excellence ( WoE)

Listen to this post Organizing resources towards realising objectives has been a constant challenge in human endeavours . In pre -industrial age days work was manual and organized around individual members of a family such as farmers or carpenters. With the introduction of machines, work was organized in factory and around production. Division of labour, departmentalization and specialisation were dominant themes around which all organization principles were built upon. Centre of excellence- represented a practically perfect form of organization is to "bring in" the identified best resources-material, machinery and men under one roof and put them into productive work. All organizations followed a similar line of action: determine the purpose, identify relevant resources, bring them "inside" the enterprise and put them into production. In a predominantly material based industry and supported by manual work it did work well and produced wonderful results. Now we live

Welcome to the Age of Texpression

We are living in an age where technologies have invaded in all walks of our life. Technology is assuming a status of a language . When humans invented or discovered language, they found a means of expression in it. Once alphabets were determined and words were formed, ability to produce expressions using those words became the differentiator between people and society, Poets or authors are known for their command over language and hence their expression ability. Today in our technology-enabled and technology -embedded world, we must coin a new term to denote the ability of individual to use tools or technologies to express. My choice is Texpression . Technology today has a potential and is doing today what language did once for human society. It is providing a means to capture one's thought and express it for rest of the world. Texpressions are human expressions enabled by underlying traditional language and wrapped in technology or tools. Blog is an example for Texpression