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{{a|negotiation|[[File:Morlock.jpg|thumb|center|450px|A [[subject matter expert]], yesterday.]]}} | {{a|negotiation|[[File:Morlock.jpg|thumb|center|450px|A [[subject matter expert]], yesterday.]]}}Known fondly by [[management consultant]]s as an “'''[[SME]]'''” — or ''less'' fondly as a [[Morlock]]—a [[subject matter expert]] is one of those benighted people without whom the organisation would not function, who are nonetheless poorly paid, forced to live in a dungeon below ground, being routinely beaten by the inhabitants of the sedimentary layers of [[middle management]] and, if any [[management consultants]] engaged by [[middle management]] have anything to do with it, are shortly be made [[redundant]]. | ||
Known fondly by [[management consultant]]s as an “'''[[SME]]'''” — or ''less'' fondly as a [[Morlock]]—a [[subject matter expert]] is one of those benighted people without whom the organisation would not function, who are nonetheless poorly paid, forced to live in a dungeon below ground, being routinely beaten by the inhabitants of the sedimentary layers of [[middle management]] and, if any [[management consultants]] engaged by [[middle management]] have anything to do with it, are shortly be made redundant. | |||
Speaking of redundancy, there is the very adjective itself, “subject matter”. What kind of thing is an expert without subject matter to be expert in? But as a qualifier, in the hands of middle-management, subject matter demeans ones expertise; it limits one to one’s material, implies a cluelessness beyond it — especially as far as business management skills — those necessarily possessed by apex predators in the corporate ecosystem — are concerned. | |||
So, in deference to these overlooked, maligned, ''vital'' people, we shall call them “[[expert]]s”. That is what they are: the [[ninja]]s; the boy-[[Wizard|wizards]]; the aces in the hole. | |||
Thereafter, when an [[Brexit|unexpected generational change in the business environment]], or [[coronavirus|another unexpected generational change in the business environment]] — they’re happening annually at the moment —will wreak havoc on the organisation, as squadrons of hastily-engaged [[contractors]] having no institutional knowledge, not a scooby-doo in the world what they are doing and an abject lack of common sense will attempt, by operation of the hive mind, to adjust the organisation’s [[direction of travel]] towards some voguish new direction, probably involving the [[blockchain]], with disastrous results. | Thereafter, when an [[Brexit|unexpected generational change in the business environment]], or [[coronavirus|another unexpected generational change in the business environment]] — they’re happening annually at the moment —will wreak havoc on the organisation, as squadrons of hastily-engaged [[contractors]] having no institutional knowledge, not a scooby-doo in the world what they are doing and an abject lack of common sense will attempt, by operation of the hive mind, to adjust the organisation’s [[direction of travel]] towards some voguish new direction, probably involving the [[blockchain]], with disastrous results. | ||