{"id":332,"date":"2007-01-15T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smilingdogapps.com\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-01-15T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T14:00:08","slug":"fixing-a-hole-in-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/15\/fixing-a-hole-in-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing a Hole in the Roof?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">There&#8217;s a guy here who is part of the SOX team and is trying his hardest to be a useful contractor.\u00a0 He is always cooking up ways to prove that the SOX team adds value to the IT organization.\u00a0 So the other day he comes up with a report that catalogs all the outstanding trouble tickets that are older than 6 months old.\u00a0 The report goes to the head of IT here and he says, &#8220;How is it possible that there is a trouble ticket that is older than 6 months old.&#8221;\u00a0 To his way of thinking, what could possibly be so problematic that it wouldn&#8217;t be fixed within 6 months?\u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">This kind of simple thinking is one facet of management consulting that makes me scratch my head.\u00a0 The truth is that some problems are not immediately pressing but they still need to be fixed.\u00a0 Say that you have a leak in one part of your roof and it needs to be fixed. So you put a pot under the leak and empty it out after it rains really hard.\u00a0 OK, you know it&#8217;s a problem, but you don&#8217;t have the time and money to fix it right now.\u00a0 Are you going to say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s pretend that the roof is not leaking and cross it off the to-do list?&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a guy here who is part of the SOX team and is trying his hardest to be a useful contractor.\u00a0 He is always cooking up ways to prove that the SOX team adds value to the IT organization.\u00a0 So the other day he comes up with a report that catalogs all the outstanding trouble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}