A Brave New World

I recently changed jobbs again, or well not so recently it's been allmost 4 months now.

Am now working for Process Research & Development trying to spend a shit load of the companies money on fancy new equipment (and a nice coloured floor with matching tiles on the walls)

A week or so ago an internal memo, which is published on the intranet, comes out about how the SET (OK for newbies to WOBB: Senior Executive Team, the suits way above the suits that sit upstairs from you right now) wants to present a new initiative that is going to make the whole R&D organisation a more focussed unit with a clear vision of the future... ah you get the picture.

We used to try and work according to something called "best practise". This basically means that within a large organisation you set up "best practise" groups which figure out what the best way of working is based on what everybody does today.

All very nice, but the SET thought this just wasn't good enough... so they come up with the new credo "New Practise", oh how novell...

Gone are the days of best ways of working, welcome to the era of new ways of working. Forget what you used to do, and find a new of doing it instead... allrightee, thank god for that, so now I can do everything the way I want to, and forget all the halv-assed solutions others have thought up before me. Brilliant! Thanks SET!

Conflicted...

I mentioned the whole thing about the requirment of renewing permanent residency permits for EU citizens in a previous entry.

 

As the time is comming for me to the start this process I tought I'd have a look at how to go about the whole thing, what forms to fill in etc...

 

Found out that you can actually do this via the web now. No more paper forms, just fill in the webform and click send. Had a quick peak at the form, and OK even though it is devided in 6 steps it actually looks user friendly and straight forward...

 

So what is this? A step forward? A reduction in WOBBing? Or is it just a 21st century version of the same WOBBing? A WOBBer with IT knowledge, taking it to the next level?

 

Thinking about it, the WOBBer in question might actually have realised that the whole thing might be in danger if too many people get annoyed, so instead of reducing WOBB he/she just made it more user friendly... hmmm... if the process goes smoothly and is actually as user friendly as it looks then I'm inclined to believe that this is the case...