“Yip, I’ve been promoted and I’m off to New York in a few weeks”, said Big D.
The other day I was chatting online with a former colleague who now works for a business process outsourcing company specialising in corporate information solutions. He told me he is going to be a new Director for the US, focussing on Strategic Solutions for the Americas.
I made the critical mistake of shouting this news down the corridor to my business partner Fergus.
“Start spreeeeading the nyoooosss, Haaam leevin’ tooodaaaaaayyy...”, he wailed.
Throughout my career, in each office or location, there has always been at least one person who was convinced, despite the reactions of their ‘audience’, that they are a good singer.
Fergus is very convinced. And very loud.
The window in my office was open. Outside, I could see squirrels throwing themselves off the oak trees.
The Pebble grimaced, and, above the racket, cried that it sounded like, “someone smothering a crow with a whoopee cushion.” Mercifully, he forced shut a couple of doors and calm was restored.
“The guys say ‘well done Big D’”, I typed back. Our chat continued.
“Thanks to all...what are you up to today...when’s the next blog coming out, what’s it going to be about?”
“I’m working on it now. It’s about systems... how traditional functional systems don’t fit with the business process view of an organisation.”
“Really? I was just in a meeting about that very subject. We take a look from the business process perspective, and it always spans lots of IT systems. The boundaries round processes are completely different to the demarcation between IT Systems...So why are you doing that one?”
I went on to explain that I’d been following a series of posts by bloggers Dennis Howlett and Francine McKenna about IT systems, auditing and the Big Four…
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