Are Vendors of Enterprise Search Distracted?
September 6, 2017
I read “To Have Good Ideas, Remember to Get Bored.” I noted this assertion in the write up:
the temptation of constant podcast listening, phone fiddling, and TV watching takes over. The fight to maintain some boredom never ends.
The idea is that distraction kills boredom. Without boredom, “people” do not get good ideas. Ergo when one notes lots of bad ideas, that may be the signal that distraction undermines innovative thinking.
I am not certain the statements in the write up and the accompanying TED talk (which bored me, by the way) are applicable across a population sleeted at random in Rwanda or rural Kentucky, but let’s assume the idea has value.
I look at enterprise search and I see the same old perpetual motion machines: Semantics, metatagging, context, yada yada.
Perhaps those involved in enterprise search system development are manifesting their distractedness. Instead of putting down the mobile and performing myriad displacement activities, are enterprise search system developers fresh out of ideas.
Something’s wrong. Analysts find search just peachy when relying on SAP, IBM Watson, Fabasoft, and the other systems available today.
I know I am bored, and I would postulate that those involved in next generation information access systems may want to cultivate a bit of boredom as well. Innovation may come about.
Example: As I was thinking about today’s me-to enterprise search systems, I was bored. I decided to begin work on a new book in my cyber intelligence series. How does eDiscovery for Investigators sound?
Boring?
Stephen E Arnold, September 6, 2017
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