Business Strategy
Posted: 24 May 2014, 11:34
For those of you who have been involved in Project Management this will probably strike some chords
"Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
1: Buying a stronger whip
2: Changing riders
3: Saying things like 'This is the way we've always ridden this horse'
4: Appointing a committee to study the horse
5: Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses
6: Increasing the standards to ride dead horses
7: Appointing a team to ride the dead horse
8: Creating a training session to increase our riding ability
9: Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment
10: Changing the requirements declaring 'This horse is not dead'
11: Hiring contractors to ride the dead horse
12: Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed
13: Declaring that 'No horse is too dead to beat'
14: Paying for a study to see if consultants can ride it cheaper
15: Providing additional funding to upgrade the dead horses performance
16: Installing a product to make dead horses run faster
17: Declaring that the horse is 'Better, faster and cheaper' dead
18: Forming a quality circle to find uses for dead horses
19: Revisiting the performance requirements for dead horses
20: Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position"
"Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
1: Buying a stronger whip
2: Changing riders
3: Saying things like 'This is the way we've always ridden this horse'
4: Appointing a committee to study the horse
5: Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses
6: Increasing the standards to ride dead horses
7: Appointing a team to ride the dead horse
8: Creating a training session to increase our riding ability
9: Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment
10: Changing the requirements declaring 'This horse is not dead'
11: Hiring contractors to ride the dead horse
12: Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed
13: Declaring that 'No horse is too dead to beat'
14: Paying for a study to see if consultants can ride it cheaper
15: Providing additional funding to upgrade the dead horses performance
16: Installing a product to make dead horses run faster
17: Declaring that the horse is 'Better, faster and cheaper' dead
18: Forming a quality circle to find uses for dead horses
19: Revisiting the performance requirements for dead horses
20: Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position"