RE: Operational Excellence - True or False? (Feel free to explain if so inclined)

I actually made the conscious decision to not define Operational Excellence because it is different for each organization. Operational excellence might be recognized by providing 5 9s of availability (99.999) because that is what is determined as the measuring stick for a particular organization. A different organization may strive for response time for 90% of queries to complete in under 10 ms. Obviously these are simplistic examples.

I think you have made the mistake of equating excellence with infallible or inerrant (or perhaps both). Perhaps to you that is what operational excellence is. To be inerrant and/or infallible.

I hope that helps.

--Chris

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Coll-Barth, Michael Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:13 PM
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Subject: RE: Operational Excellence - True or False? (Feel free to explain if so inclined)

What utter nonsensical, management double speak; 'operational excellence'.

But, I'll play.

Care to define the term?

If I were to take the term at face value, I'd have to say that there are very few out there that could be considered excellent at anything. Some of us may be very good or even damn good, but excellent? No. Even someone like Tom Kyte has failings and he'd be the first to tell you that. Just check out his web site.

As written, the statement is false and inflammatory.

Add the following line; 'But that individual could provide the operational proficiency that is quite a bit more than good enough', and the statement becomes true and reasonable.

And with that said, 'excellence' is something to be strived for by everyone, but is rarely, if ever, achieved by anyone.

I haven't eaten today, so perhaps I'm just not feeling excellent. Ted, Bill? You ready to head out? Your stepmom *is* cute, though.

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Taylor, Chris David Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:47 PM
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Subject: Operational Excellence - True or False? (Feel free to explain if so inclined)

I just want to get an idea of where some of you fall on this statement...

Truth Statement:
Due to the differences in Oracle and Microsoft database products, an individual person cannot provide operational excellence in both products with regard to the management of large enterprise data stores.

(That is, to achieve operational excellence in regard to enterprise data management of large data stores managed by both Oracle and SQL Server, you need individuals who specialize in each technology).

--Chris

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