{"id":332,"date":"2007-08-29T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/paradox-at-work\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T18:21:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T18:21:21","slug":"paradox-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2007\/08\/paradox-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have attended countless Business Review meetings in my 10-year working span.&nbsp; And, in that time, I have had ample opportunity to introspect on the challenges that organizations face, particularly the large-scale variety.&nbsp; At one such meeting, I began thinking about the paradoxes involved :<\/p>\n<p>* Every one (function\/business team\/channel) needs more data, more MIS, more dashboards&#8230; But, hardly any one uses them <em>efficiently<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>* There is always a tradeoff between getting it done &#8220;first&#8221; and getting it done &#8220;better&#8221;.&nbsp; But, can an organization afford to launch something in the market, and <em>then<\/em> improve on it?!&nbsp; Will customers come back to experience the all-new improved version if their first experience was sub-optimal?<\/p>\n<p>* Every where I see, new initiatives are rewarded, but implementation of these &#8220;best practices&#8221; does not receive any recognition!&nbsp; Who will focus on <em>Execution<\/em>?!<\/p>\n<p>* Is there a choice to be made between Service focus, Process focus and New Business focus?!&nbsp; Are organizations making these choices every day?<\/p>\n<p>What other paradox have you experienced in your work life?&nbsp; And, what are you doing about it?&nbsp; Would love to hear from you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have attended countless Business Review meetings in my 10-year working span.  And, in that time, I have had ample opportunity to introspect on the challenges that organizations face, particularly the large-scale variety.  At one such meeting, I began thinking about the paradoxes involved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}