{"id":1000,"date":"2015-09-12T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/lets-cut-the-bullsht_091215\/"},"modified":"2015-09-12T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T11:17:00","slug":"lets-cut-the-bullsht_091215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/lets-cut-the-bullsht_091215\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Rant: Let’s cut this bullsh*t and have meaningful conversations again (please)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skeptical? You should be…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Admit it, people, you’re all being subjected to presentations from many service providers and advisors that have become so confusing you’re actually too embarrassed to say: “I really haven’t got a clue what you are trying to pitch me here”.<\/p>\n
In many cases, you suspect the suit presenting it to you probably doesn’t have much of a clue either, so you just zone out and permit him to portray painfully\u00a0his pre-scripted, professionally puffed-up, potpourri of PowerPoint.<\/p>\n
I don’t believe I’ve ever witnessed a time our services “industry” has descended into such a mind-numbing pattern of meaningless marketing hype and unintelligible bullsh*t. \u00a0It was bad enough when everyone was painting pretty pictures of “transformation” to sugar-frost labor arbitrage deals, but at least we could understand the bullsh*t and detect its scent a mile away.<\/p>\n
Today, we’ve fallen even deeper into a trough of verbose desperation, as most service providers and advisors replicate each others’ sales decks to reel off an increasingly inane plethora of confused rubbish, that is transcending\u00a0further and further away from reality. In most cases, this is much worse<\/em> than mere sales hype, it is hype and confusion squished together in such a confused steaming mess, it leaves most of us speechless to even question it. How can you ask sensible questions, when you just don’t really understand<\/em>\u00a0what you’re being presented?<\/p>\n
When we questioned the understanding of today’s technology enablers with 178 experienced service buyers, the results are quite alarming – and telling:<\/p>\n