About that TPS Report…
One of the laws of thermodynamics can be summed up as: Entropy Builds.
I realized that today while doing my “short monthly update” that gets forwarded up the org chart. What started as a paragraph now involves about 3 spreadsheets pulling data from 4 sources and takes at least an hour to do. The worst part is that I see no effective way around this and have to give up and call it the price of organizational growth. Every other month there’s another stat worth tracking and that’s another straw to hoist up on to the camel.
I have no conclusion about this.
Posted: February 27th, 2007 under Daily Life, Productivity Buster.
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Comment from Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast
Time: February 28, 2007, 3:27 pm
What eventually has to happen.
1. Automate.
2. Spin off some functions into SBUs.
Comment from john blue
Time: March 1, 2007, 3:55 pm
Great cartoon of this situation at http://www.flickr.com/photos/innovationcreation/407094861/
Article PDF at http://www.innovationcreation.us/content/HighPerformaceOrgCartoonMetricsHBR2005.pdf
John Blue
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