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Look at it this way: you’ve just had a “'''Booking Model Operational Risk Working Group Fortnightly [[Stakeholder]] Call'''” put in your diary. | Look at it this way: you’ve just had a “'''Booking Model Operational Risk Working Group Fortnightly [[Stakeholder]] Call'''” put in your diary. | ||
Now, leaving aside that one could scarcely string together nine more spirit-crushing words in the English language | Now, leaving aside that one could scarcely string together nine more spirit-crushing words in the English language, there are THIRTY NINE, all fairly senior, people invited to this call. In other words, a full working week of your organisation’s employee time spent on an update call per fortnight. Now this may be exceedingly efficient for the [[COO|crafty devil]] organising the call — kill thirty nine birds with one stone, yo — but immensely wasteful for everyone else. | ||
Since only one person can talk at a time, we can deduce that each attendee will contribute, on average, one and a half minutes of relevant/valuable material on each call. So a single hour of valuable time, and thirty-eight wasted ones. From a pure cost perspective, you would think that would send the [[COO]] into orbit – but guess who is organising the call. | Since only one person can talk at a time, we can deduce that each attendee will contribute, on average, one and a half minutes of relevant/valuable material on each call. So a single hour of valuable time, and thirty-eight wasted ones. From a pure cost perspective, you would think that would send the [[COO]] into orbit – but guess who is organising the call. | ||
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The [[COO]] could, of course, speak to each individual separately, prepare a single summary [[deck]]<ref>Sigh.</ref> to everyone for careful filing<ref>In the circular filing cabinet, of course.</ref>, but where, for the [[COO]], would be the fun in that? | The [[COO]] could, of course, speak to each individual separately, prepare a single summary [[deck]]<ref>Sigh.</ref> to everyone for careful filing<ref>In the circular filing cabinet, of course.</ref>, but where, for the [[COO]], would be the fun in that? | ||
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