Analogies in a Professional Setting
The opening night session at a conference on information technology (IT) architecture turned a standard conference presentation into one big analogy. Held at a resort in Kitzbühel, Austria, in the shadows of the snow-capped Alps, the conference was meant to instruct CIOs from some of the world's most prestigious corporations. So it initially felt odd that two architects—building architects, not IT architects—kicked things off by talking about their experience transforming slums in Caracas, Venezuela into livable, low-income housing. Why would the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company choose to open ...
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