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[prady]

On 11/18/06, Ziya Oz:
> If MBAs, bean counters, and other assorted people in white coats with slide
> rules could successfully design products/services, we would today be talking
> about the Best Buy Music Store and not the iTunes Music Store or the Dell DJ
> Ditty and not the iPod. The Dell CEO would not be answering when Fortune
> asked "Could Dell ever come up with a PlayStation or an iPod on its own?"
> with "We could. But I don't think that's our strategy." And, consequently,
> DELL's marketcap would not be $16 billion LOWER than AAPL's today. And
> Wal-Mart wouldn't be threatening major studios and labels with retaliation
> if they provided content to Apple's movie download service.

Tell me what is common between the above passage and following text --

"Our team is conducting a benchmarking effort to gather an outside-in
view on development performance metrics and best practice approaches
to issues of process and organization from companies involved in a
variety of software development (and systems integration)."

You don't have to be an MBA to use words which don't make any sense?

:-)