Some things I agree with
(or not as the case may be)
Sunday, November 5 The Plan (or, how to NOT implement a business strategy)
I saw this and immediately liked it. Sums up managerial strategies very cleverly, and explains where a few of these companies' 'bright ideas' may well have come from (I'm thinking particularly of the music industry... 'DRMed music made available at the same price as physical copies of the same material? Yeah, that's a great idea, the consumers love that').
Anyway, down to business.
The Plan In the beginning was the plan And then came the assumptions And the assumptions were without form And the plan was completely without substance And darkness was on the faces of the workers And they spoke amongst themselves, saying "It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh" And the workers went to the planners and sayeth "It is a pile of dung and none may abide the odour thereof" And the planners went to the supervisors and sayeth unto them "It is a container of excrement and it is very strong such that none may abide by it" And the supervisors went to the managers and sayeth unto them "It is a vessel of fertiliser and none may abide its strength" And the managers went to the directors and sayeth "It contains that which aids growth and it is very strong" And the directors went to the vice president and sayeth "It promoteth growth and it is very powerful" And the vice president went to the president and sayeth unto him "This powerful new plan will actively promote the growth and efficiency of the department" And the president looked upon the plan and saw that it was good And the plan became policy...
Gloriously pinched from the webpages of one of my University's ex-lecturers, Remco van Veenendaal:
Friday, 25th June 2004 was my last day at work in the tic. I have enjoyed my 2 years as a technologist/lecturer, but am returning to Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands.
