by admin on April 7, 2011
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by admin on August 18, 2010
In Business Process, KPI, MIS and many other contexts the concept of commonality is seen as being very desirable. After all, why should separate parts of the same organisation operate differently and use different systems to do so……it just makes things harder and more costly to implement, share, re-use and/or outsource doesn’t it?
Well, there is certainly truth in the preceding sentiment. Of course you can equally also argue the reverse. That unique circumstances require unique solutions, that different customers from different cultures need different handling, that there is a not insignificant up-front cost and time implication for multi-site harmonisation…….or just simply that one size does not fit all!
So where does this ‘push-me-pull-me’ debate get us? Well most frequently, at this high level of discussion, not very far. It does however help frame a pertinent question…….how common is common enough?
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