It’s always amusing – well it is to me, anyway – when corporate-speak butts heads with reality in spectacular ways. I face it every day in the IT industry, but have come to realize that the same self-important nonsense is prevalent in every industry.
Take this quote on February 8 from someone called Frank Williams, “We believe we couldn’t have picked a better time to move into this one organisation type structure, because the market is more and more asking for end-to-end solutions by a single supplier…These are very exciting times and this is a great opportunity to pull the UK organisation together.”
Thus says the bloke who recently took over as UK manager of Securitas, which was held up 13 days later to the tune of 50 million pounds ($87m), or thereabouts.
I guess the robbers were waiting for that single, end-to-end supplier thing to take effect so they could nick more dosh?