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*For the [[meatware]] you acquire service provider contracts, [[SLA]]s, overseas offices in Romania, Belfast and Bangalore and yet ''more'' demands on your tech architecture. | *For the [[meatware]] you acquire service provider contracts, [[SLA]]s, overseas offices in Romania, Belfast and Bangalore and yet ''more'' demands on your tech architecture. | ||
But make no mistake, folks: you still have a horse. In fact, a donkey. The fastest donkey in the world still | But make no mistake, folks: you still have a horse. In fact, a donkey. | ||
The fastest donkey in the world still won’t go fast. Your donkey will be slow, ''because donkeys are slow''. Your donkey will expensive, because ''donkeys are expensive''. Painting go-faster stripes on it and sticking it in a brownfield paddock behind an an industrial estate in the outskirts of [[School-leaver from Bucharest|Bratislava]] won’t change that. You could have the finest ostlers, stable-hands, jockeys and breeders, and you could pay them a pittance, ''but you would still have a donkey''. | |||
In fact, since your standard forms were not [[Design|designed]] so much as they ''accreted'' over the years, settled on by [[committee]], reflecting the manifold fears, hobby-horses, bonnet-bees, misconceptions and fleeting fripperies of a succession of mediocre risk managers, all of whom are now lost to posterity, even while their proclivities litter the fossil record, not even a donkey but a camel. A ''pantomime'' camel. | |||
The donkey in this case is the complexity of your templates, your policies, your credit standards, your client selection. | The donkey in this case is the complexity of your templates, your policies, your credit standards, your client selection. | ||