What's Inhibiting Employee Productivity?

A while back, I attended an interactive one-day event with 40 other thought leaders. The agenda was fairly loose: We participated in a wide array of discussions on tech-related topics. These included Big Data, cloud computing, and "platforms" (never a precisely defined term these days).

While I agreed with much of what was said, some level of discord was inevitable. After all, what are the odds that so many folks from disparate backgrounds will concur with every comment made? It didn't take long until I heard a few things that just didn't make sense. In this post, I'll focus on one attendee's particularly objectionable lamentation: "Employees would be so much more productive if better tools existed."

My response could be summed up in two words. No, not those two.