I was thinking that ERA is the wrong label. It smacks of something that has a beginning and an end and I don't believe that competing with information, labour, knowledge or anything else have beginnings and ends for all businesses. I can believe that in some industries a point of exhaustion/saturation point could occur in regards to, for example, leveraging information for competitive advantage. But to stand up and say that the knowledge or information ERA is over is incorrect.
The sources of competitive advantage are the attitudes, perceptions and behaviour of consumers. It has always been thus. So this talk of post-knowledge era is attractive and plausible but misleading. Instead of always trying to invent new paradigms it would be better to concentrate on the one enduring paradigm - people.
I was thinking that ERA is the wrong label. It smacks of something that has a beginning and an end and I don't believe that competing with information, labour, knowledge or anything else have beginnings and ends for all businesses.
I can believe that in some industries a point of exhaustion/saturation point could occur in regards to, for example, leveraging information for competitive advantage. But to stand up and say that the knowledge or information ERA is over is incorrect.
The sources of competitive advantage are the attitudes, perceptions and behaviour of consumers. It has always been thus. So this talk of post-knowledge era is attractive and plausible but misleading. Instead of always trying to invent new paradigms it would be better to concentrate on the one enduring paradigm - people.