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You can hardly get rid of the [[negotiator]] — it’s not like they haven't tried ''that'' millions of times already — so pity those poor Romanians: it’s back to wiping tables at Starbucks for them. But good news! we can deploy [[Innovation paradox|innovative]] [[reg tech]] to replace them! | You can hardly get rid of the [[negotiator]] — it’s not like they haven't tried ''that'' millions of times already — so pity those poor Romanians: it’s back to wiping tables at Starbucks for them. But good news! we can deploy [[Innovation paradox|innovative]] [[reg tech]] to replace them! | ||
Here is what they will suggest: get a [[neural network]] to extract the data from the document and populate it into the collateral engine.<ref>It will need [[optical character recognition]] to convert the image back to a digital format of course.</ref> | Here is what they will suggest: get a next-generation [[neural network]] to extract the data from the document and populate it into the collateral engine.<ref>It will need [[optical character recognition]] to convert the image back to a digital format of course.</ref> | ||
===4. Setback=== | |||
At this point, our hero (the middle manager, that is: always the intrepid hero of any adventure in institutional governance) will suffer a setback: Some curmudgeonly contrarian will ask a difficult question. “hang on: why don’t we change the front end, building a SQL database that our negotiator can enter the data into, rather than a word document? She can then generate the word document from the SQL database, and preserve the digital data in the infrastructure.” | |||
Our hero will shake his head. Sadly that is too difficult. | |||
Difficult? How is that difficult? | |||
It will involve IT spend. Hundreds of thousands of dollars., There is no budget. There is never any budget. | |||
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*[[Innovation paradox]] | |||
*[[Rent-seeking]] | |||
*[[Reg tech]] | |||
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