However, “manager centric” approaches have been unable to provide a practical means to fully utilize the available connectivity.
In his Doctorate on Introducing Technology into Organizations completed in 1990, Dr. Neil Miller identified the need for a distributed management paradigm.
In 1991, he founded TASKey Pty Ltd to develop, operationalise, and commercialize a new distributed management paradigm.
Patents on the core parts of distributed management were granted in Australia (1997) and USA (2000).
In 1995, TASKey correctly estimated that the web technologies required to globally implement distributed management would not be available for about 15 years.