Colossians 3:23-25
In all the work you are doing, work the best you can. Work as if you were doing it for the Lord, not for people.
Remember that you will receive your reward from the Lord, which he promised to his people. You are serving the Lord Christ.
But remember that anyone who does wrong will be punished for that wrong, and the Lord treats everyone the same.
Every advance or innovation seems to come with both benefits and risks, improvements and (often unexpected) complications. Whether you chalk it up to the law of unintended consequences, hype, hubris, passivity, karma or whatever cosmic force, the best-intentioned and most-benign-seeming tech initiatives and developments frequently seem to backfire in some way.
Although I have been a part of many successful implementations, everyone knows about ventures that went awry. The point is not that innovation and transformation should be avoided, but rather that an understanding of the potential risks needs to go beyond technical analysis and expense tracking. The human element often sabotages the best-laid plans.
My guess is that the next big occurrence of these kinds of contradictions will come out of our well-planned and well-executed efforts to adopt and leverage the catch-all technology known as web 2.0 — wikis, blogs, portals and other Web-based services based on user participation. With so much focus on customer experience, loyalty and retention - not to mention efforts to keep up with demographic change and the implications of the youth market in terms of both customers and employees - we should expect to see more really innovative web 2.0-related initiatives coming soon.
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