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Known fondly by [[management consultant]]s as an “[[SME]]”, as [[subject matter expert]] is one of those benighted people without whom the organisation would not function, who are nonetheless poorly paid, in the sedimentary layers of [[middle management]] widely resented and, if said [[management consultants]] (or for that matter, [[middle management]] have anything to do with it, will shortly be made redundant. | Known fondly by [[management consultant]]s as an “[[SME]]”, as [[subject matter expert]] is one of those benighted people without whom the organisation would not function, who are nonetheless poorly paid, in the sedimentary layers of [[middle management]] widely resented and, if said [[management consultants]] (or for that matter, [[middle management]] have anything to do with it, will shortly be made redundant. | ||
There is an argument that [[middle management]] is little more than a game of chicken to see how many subject matter experts you can fire without the organisation actually imploding on itself. | |||
[[Subject matter expert|Subject Matter Experts]] cannot safely be replaced by contractors, much less [[consultant]]s from PWC, however much your [[MBA|dogma]] commends you to wish it were so. | |||
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