What's the Difference Between Irish and Polish Sausage?

For some reason, my mind is often the issue of rotation, "is how, professional staff, in different higher education than it is in , # 39 world »" Recently, a couple of friends - one in higher education and a in the company the world - experienced by Changes in their working life compared in such a way to promote my ideas in this direction again.

1, well call her Ms. C, engineering large pharmaceutical companies. Short-term Not long ago, it purchased a very large company. In the middle of the time, her position has changed from a place of work, her hand - and the people, and has several direct reports . Now, she has little interaction with human hands and is fast becoming the manager of the outsourcing contract.

On the other hand, we can call him Mr. C, a College of Engineering in IT-related role.

part of his work will have a C President of the outsourcing companies, but is still within the company, the College . In addition, outsourcing, when President C of the engineering department and other departments, he was able to insist that their work as equal partners in His departments functions, but never as an outsourcing supplied by other departments, but as a peer.

This involves why there are so many, we are uncomfortable with the Oracle / PeopleSoft battle, not just those who are already in the relationship between PeopleSoft. PeopleSoft be regarded as a good focus on higher education as a unique market. Although many of the problems in the past few years of implementation, we can see that the company as a supplier, but as a truly understand higher education And that we, as its main market.

Oracles a different story. I am not familiar enough with its products and services to know how many, its focused on in higher education, but I scan the environment , And understand that it is seen as a big company, of which only cut focus on higher education. Some people worry that, if it is the main provider.

ERP system of higher education, the software will be a bit numb the the uniqueness of our industry. And we see our uniqueness as an important and necessary.

the Sakai project and related initiatives may or may not be sustainable over time (I hope they are), but they clearly reflect the academic culture and our system needs. I think the product Sakai project as "the real Higher Education" sausages, it is entirely incompatible with the old saying goes about do not want to have to watch the production of sausages , But just to enjoy products. This is the nature and "appropriate" products to the culture, is to produce.

What is the meaning of the "real higher education sausage" » I work a few years, during and after the Faculty of Law, a company in the city centre Detroit. The main waterfront public meetings have Hurd Square, is the venue a summer-long series of cultural and ethnic exhibitions. It was Italy Festival, Spain Festival, Poland Arts Festival, the German section, African-American Festival, Mexico Festival, and so on. In each section, stalls selling "authentic" sausage sandwiches.

sausage is always the same sausage, no doubt, because of economies of scale and contract supplier and the city. However, the Festival Walk to 3-4 at lunch, more than a month or more, it must be kind of frustrating to recognized that the sausage, Irish, Polish sausage, sausage and Mexico (certainly not chorizo) are the same sausage. Have a clear sense of direction and fraud loss of legitimacy. At that time, I am very disappointed.