The statement of work I’m reviewing says that the vendor will provide “implementation execution planning across all upstream and downstream applications/platform.” We lawyers get called obtuse from time to time, but we have nothing on an IT service provider’s marketing department.
Management consultants are pretty good at that too: http://berlaymonster.blogspot.be/2012/03/eu-telecoms-eurocrats-get-management.html
Wow, that is pretty impressive. I guess I let the modern explosion of market-centric nonsense blind me to the fact that bureaucratic nonsense has been honed for thousands of years.