Harley Davidson likes the challenges

Or.. that's what the Harley creator's grandson, William Davidson, thought when he considered to revolutionize rider's concept of what it was "having a Harley Davidson". Well, that and the urgent necesity to rescue the company he inherited from his grandfather from the crisis.

Question 1: ¿How to get it? Well, nothing better than give it a shower with fresh air and turn "the go for a walk motors" into "outstanding fast motorcycles"

Question 2: ¿And... how to do it, without forgetting Harley's essence? Well, very easy, William thought: let's find the best engineers, the best designers and put all their thinking brains to work. And that's the way it was.




The one million dollar question: ¿How do we go from here...
...to here, without changing Harley's vision?


Well, that... was not so easy.



The V-Rod was like a daughter for his creators, and as you know, children come with a piece of bread under their arms (pure Spanglish I know). But, in this case, instead of bread, were rather...

...Problems...

¿How do choose the correct motor for a motorcycle like Harley, and frame doesn't get hurt? Where to put the fuel tank? And now, that we've got the fuel tank placed, where should we place the fan?, and last but least, how do we built a motorcycle to make it run, but run fastly?

As you can imagine, the one fixing the motor problems, has nothing to do with the one choosing the correct frame, and even less with the one designing the fan. But hey, here comes a big big problem; how does the guy in charge of the frame get to know what he's doing is useless and incompatible with the radiator guy?


Here it's the big deal. This problem not only existed while the V-rod's conception process but also in the majority of nowadays organizations, and yes, they are trying harder facing it: HOW DO WE INTEGRATE THE KNOWLEDGE OF EVERY COMPONENT IN A WORK TEAM, IN THE GERERAL KNOWLEDGE?

I mean, how will we be capable of getting designers knowledge into engineers, and make it useful for them, and as the same time for the comercial guys?

How to generate a channel just like a pipe where all the knowledge flows into, so we could use it for the individual, professional and human enrichment?

The answer makes me remember, this Matrix movie scene, where Trinity and Neo go in Morpheo's rescue, and they stand in front of an helicopter.



-Neo: Can you fly that thing?
-Trinity: Not yet.

(Trinity calls Tank)

-Trinity: Tank, I need a pilot program for a V-212 helicopter. Hurry.
(And after a few seconds)

-Trinty: Let's go.

Well, I guess you'll be thinking quite the same as me right now. This is...Knowledge management... but maybe the one in 23rd Century after Obama...

Asking my teacher what he meant about "What IT systems could have helped Harley to improve, he told me: "give it a chance to imagination"...

Well, it's such a pity that reality is far from Matrix, but can you imagine having any kind of knowledge with jut pushing a button and waiting for a few seconds? As for the momment, it's just a matter of the movies (but everything will come), we'd have similar things, if communication between customers, providers, organizations just have a communication channel, in whick an answer to question would be as far as a click.

It's extremely important changing everyone's mind into the new things, using social networks: real ones(so they could allow instant data access, information, briefings, etc. from other projects.. all the learning process in an organization) and virtual ones (inter&intra-organizations chats)

In very many ways, Internet and data bases can meet these needs. Maybe data bases and knowledge storage might not be such a crazyness, maybe might be an Esperanto attempt.

My question for the readers is: how do we transform all this knowledge into WISDOM??