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A [[target operating model]] (fondly known to all as the '''[[TOM]]''') is the ''desired state of an organisation’s operating model''. | {{g}}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”, “wished-for”, ''in a perfect world''. | ||
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===On Plato and perfect worlds=== | ===On Plato and perfect worlds=== | ||
A [[target operating model]] is thereby a kind of Platonic ideal. While it is hard to persuade a [[chief operating officer]] of this, the fact remains that we [[subject matter expert]]s do not inhabit an abstract realm of essential beauty.<ref>Well, ''I'' certainly don’t.</ref> | A [[target operating model]] is thereby a kind of [[Platonic ideal]]. While it is hard to persuade a [[chief operating officer]] of this, the fact remains that we [[subject matter expert]]s do not inhabit an abstract realm of essential beauty.<ref>Well, ''I'' certainly don’t.</ref> | ||
No. We inhabit a grubby, tedious cave, in which we are shackled together and forced to look at the same craggy walls. We have no ideal forms; we see only their shadows, thrown by guttering candles against those misshapen walls. The ideals are perverted. Disfigured. Monstrous. The world we know is of the shadows: It is intractable, messy, irritating and prone to outbreaks of Sod’s law. | No. We inhabit a grubby, tedious [[Plato’s cave|cave]], in which we are shackled together and forced to look at the same craggy walls. We have no ideal forms; we see only their shadows, thrown by guttering candles against those misshapen walls. The ideals are perverted. Disfigured. Monstrous. The world we know is of the shadows: It is intractable, messy, irritating and prone to outbreaks of Sod’s law. | ||
Life in it is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. | Life in it is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, and made immeasurably worse by these fellows with measuring sticks and protractors, getting under your feet while you break rocks with your hands. | ||
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