October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 52m
English
Rube Goldberg was an award-winning cartoonist whose fame grew around his depiction of odd contraptions. A Rube Goldberg design was a collection of things that rolled, fell, twisted or through some intricate series of levers performed a mundane task. Accomplishing a task using a “Rube Goldberg design” is synonymous with applying a complicated, patched-together solution that works only when all of its elements are perfectly aligned. A lot of energy is spent accomplishing even simple tasks. Unfortunately, today’s version of a “Rube Goldberg machine” is often the information management system used by many businesses.
When the information management system of a business looks like a Rube Goldberg machine, there ...
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