Tag: communication protocols
The Project That Connected the World: How ARPANET Became the Blueprint for Integration Management
1. The 1960s: A World of Silos Waiting to Connect In the late 1960s, “data” lived in isolation.Each research lab had one massive computer, costing millions, and each spoke a language of its own. Collaboration meant mailing magnetic tapes or flying across states. Then came ARPA — a visionary branch of the U.S. Department of…
The Signal Detection Crisis: Why Your Project Communications Are Failing (And How to Fix Them)
The 847-Email Problem “Did you get my email?” Sarah, the project manager, asked this question 23 times during our first meeting. Not because her emails weren’t being delivered, but because they were drowning in an ocean of digital noise that had consumed her $800K software development project. When I conducted my communication audit, the numbers…
