(1) object oriented programming

(2) relational database designs and tools including XML

(3) heretofore unheard of computing resources including Amazon’s unlimited EC2 scalable computing resources and ‘cloud’ based storage resources Amazon S3, as well as their other scalable resources including fulfillment and the ‘Electronic Turk’ (albeit poorly named) an example of a completely scalable intellectual workforce.

In your blog entry you address the System of Profound Knowledge and Deming but recall your frustration with the amount of time required to implement a ’systems’ approach. It’s true that Deming approach is inspirational. The reality is the human approach to problem solving lacks the precision and flawless memory of a CPU, RAM and disk space; and humans usually lack perfect information for want of analysis. Thus, “seat of one’s pants” management is the defacto reality of all but a very few enterprises.

In short (as if that’s possible now), to date, the perception (and thus reality is) that humans do not have cost-effective tools to apply Deming’s approach on a day to day basis. It’s like asking a subsistence rice farmer to develop a new biotec drug candidate based upon methods developed by Genetech. While it’s possible, there’s an expensive learning curve. But, what I’ve come to realize recently is, the aforementioned resources and tools are the building blocks (largely open source and thus low cost) of an artificial intelligence infrastructure which will soon dramatically reduce both the learning curve and the costs associated with what you appear to be proposing here.