Is your factory set up to make EDAM or Stinking Bishop?
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If the requirement had simply been 'make cheese', then I guess it would have been an OK approach to assemble some generalists that no one else wanted and who had no experience of making cheese, give them a factory with few facilities, tools they did not understand, very few processes, measures or controls and even less support, direction, management, training, motivation, or incentivisation, blah blah blah and just let them get on with it.
You would have eventually ended up with something that scientifically could be certified as cheese, however, it would probably taste like, and have the same effect of serving Stinking Bishop as the cheese course at the end of an otherwise fabulous dinner.
Wouldn't it be funny then to think it possible that today organisations that wanted/needed an effective 'EDAM' (Enterprise Data Asset Management) factory or were after making that 'holy grail' of hard cheeses, EIDQ MEP - pronounced in the style of an ignorant Englishman trying to speak in a French accent, ei-de-qu mepĀ (Enterprise Information & Data Asset Management, Exploitation and Protection), could still be investing in, designing and running Stinking Bishop factories ...?
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Always remember, there are those who like Stinking Bishop (cheese that is)! (Including me)
Posted by: Keith Underdown | August 14, 2009 09:49 AM
If you want and ask for Stinking Bishop, and you get Stinking Bishop, then expectations are met.
If you want EDAM but get something like a Stinking Bishop then expectations won't be met.
BTW Keith - Can I assume you also like a ripe old goats cheese :-)
Posted by: Andrew Brooks | August 14, 2009 11:06 AM