Trans4mation Blog - Steve Banhegyi & Associates

Once upon a time, the only computers that existed were mainframes that served armies of users on dumb terminals, mechanical teletype and punchcard machines. These were the days before mice and windows, when the giant airconditioned hosts were used for serious military, scientific and commercial applications and were kept running by a very serious priesthood of IT professionals and engineers. And, in addition to fuelling some very real macho fantasies of centalised power and control, mainframe computers cost plenty to buy and run.

Permaculture is a particularly useful metaphor in change management and KM and many organisations are starting use permaculture principles to teach design and sustainability. Permaculture concerns itself with the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development.