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A [[target operating model]] (fondly known to all as the '''[[TOM]]''') is the desired state of | A [[target operating model]] (fondly known to all as the '''[[TOM]]''') is the ''desired state of an organisation’s operating model''. | ||
“Desired”, “wished-for”, ''in a perfect world''. | |||
===Desired by whom?=== | |||
[[Subject matter expert]]s don’t usually have the ''time'' to contemplate the eternal verities, much less the inclination. To the extent they have a desired state beyond going home time, it would be a workplace absent any [[middle managers]] banging on about [[target operating model]]s. Thus a target operating model is the aspiration of she whose role in the organisation is to wish for perfect things: [[middle manager]]s. | |||
===A perfect world=== | |||
Thus, a [[target operating model]] is a kind of Platonic ideal. But we do not inhabit an abstract realm of essential beauty.<ref>Well, ''I'' certainly don’t.</ref> | Thus, a [[target operating model]] is a kind of Platonic ideal. But we do not inhabit an abstract realm of essential beauty.<ref>Well, ''I'' certainly don’t.</ref> | ||
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Desired by middle management, that is. Therefore a TOM trucks in terms of unicorns, rainbows, and popular delusions of the management mob. There is no space in a target operating model for human foible, unexpected contingency, nuance, shade of meaning or obstinacy. | Desired by middle management, that is. Therefore a TOM trucks in terms of unicorns, rainbows, and popular delusions of the management mob. There is no space in a target operating model for human foible, unexpected contingency, nuance, shade of meaning or obstinacy. | ||
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