Consultations

Oh Man! You have got to love the process and procedures corporate America has come up with.

SEI, CMM, Six Sigma, ISO 9000, and all other types of procedural policy to help us with our planning to plan. It is amazing how if you are the creator of a process in a company you love it. But, if you are a user of the process created you hate it. And somehow creators never seem to be the users.

As a consultant I get to have a very objective view of the whole thing and while I can see that some process is good and some process is bad it doesn't really matter. Because all process, even the bad process, equals dollars. Every extra hour of work that I do ... Cha-ching. If you really think about it this process is probably a huge contributor to why companies even bother to hire consultants. I mean think about it. How often do people actually get promoted or any recognition for just following the process?

Good process may lead to savings that people are recognized for but it is the savings that matters not the process to get there. So if you do what you are told and spend all of your time following a process it isn't necessarily going to get you anywhere. What do you do? Hire a consultant, let him deal with the process, and take the credit for any good that comes of it so that you can maybe get a percent or two above cost of living in your annual merit increase.

Fine by me, keep it coming Corporate America