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

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:55:22 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10saUN0C2jODh3HVfRnvPVc4TkRP6pWvbtxNTa3PJErrPkg_at_mail.gmail.com>

I still think your original statement is false, even under your new definition which seems to be "meet or exceed corporation specific goals". Your original statement therefore appears to be capable of being written

"No individual can meet or exceed our corporate goals using 2 different but related technologies. Any individual can only be adequately competent for our needs in one technology".

That seems to me unfair to the many IT professionals who achieve exactly the above for their employers.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Taylor, Chris David < ChrisDavid.Taylor_at_ingrambarge.com> wrote:

> Yikes! Yes, I think you need to eat J****
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> 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.****
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> 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.****
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> I hope that helps.****
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> --Chris****
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> *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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> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* RE: Operational Excellence - True or False? (Feel free to
> explain if so inclined)****
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> What utter nonsensical, management double speak; 'operational excellence'.
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> But, I'll play.****
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> Care to define the term? ****
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> 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.****
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> As written, the statement is false and inflammatory. ****
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> 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.****
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> And with that said, 'excellence' is something to be strived for by
> everyone, but is rarely, if ever, achieved by anyone.****
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> 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.****
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> *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
> *To:* 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
> *Subject:* Operational Excellence - True or False? (Feel free to explain
> if so inclined)****
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> I just want to get an idea of where some of you fall on this statement…***
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> Truth Statement:****
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> 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. ****
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> (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).****
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> --Chris****
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Niall Litchfield
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