In the corporate world, you can pick any noun, attach the word “governance” to it, and you have now invented a new necessary function into your organization, which obviously requires resources to manage it. Corporate busybodies come up with interpretations for guidelines and “frameworks”, which were passed on to them by their public sector busybody counterparts and the entire self-perpetuating process has set tens of thousands of people up for a lifelong career of doing nothing much at all. Read more...

Names locations and languages have been altered for the sake of preserving anonymity. Introduction Consulting is fiat bullshit. In another post I discuss why finance and consulting are intricately linked and necessarily form a black hole of value destruction. People may wonder how something like this manifests itself, so this is an account of what it is like when a professional services business meets a financial institution and how bullshit is invented solely for the purpose of billing and creating pointless work. Read more...

Key Performance Indicators: When your job is so enigmatic, someone else’s job is to devise how to measure it. To quote kpi.org: “Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the critical (key) quantifiable indicators of progress toward an intended result. KPIs provide a focus for strategic and operational improvement, create an analytical basis for decision making and help focus attention on what matters most.” That’s a long-winded way of saying: “Measuring how to do your job. Read more...