OT; Daft things on vans - again

[The Natural Philosopher]

no. It has the word intelligence in it.

That's elitist, and completely against Party Dogma. And has 4 syllables.

Try again.

[Tim Watts]

Bruce wibbled on Tuesday 09 March 2010 22:14

Why don't they just say "bus running public information systems" or somesuch.

[Tim Streater]

They're extremely real time when one of us is driving and the other navigating.

[Tim Streater]

That's just it: I gave up. Looks like their whole web site is a good candidate for being entered in Private Eye's Pseuds Corner.

You'd think the fatheads would realise how off-putting their twaddley way of expressing themselves actually is.

[Bruce]

Perhaps that "twaddley way of expressing themselves" actually appeals to their target market?

[tony sayer]

They do such things as Bus tracking systems. Put this into your browser and select a live area, input your postcode and it will tell you what busses are running from the nearest stop or one you select and it will give U real time info....

[tony sayer]

As maybe but firms like that know who and where their customers are and will actively contact them, they don't for instance sell to Joe public...

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[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Frank Erskine saying something like:

You don't get much more 'real time' than actually being there and looking at it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

absolutely. councils feel 'empowered' by having con artists spout that kind of crap at them.

Its all part of the 'everyone is smart, you just have to learn to use Big Words' movement.

[Bruce]

I thought it was part of the "thinking outside the box" movement, empowered by being in the right ballpark, benchmarking, best practice and that reliable old non-job creator, quality assurance.

All purchased at a bulk discount from Buzzwords'R'Us. ;-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Is there actually a difference?

[djc]

My Google finds this newsgroup post and a lot of directories but not the company itself; but then anyone stupid enough to use a .uk.com domain deserves to be more ridiculed than visible.

[Owain]

Quality assurance is old hat. The next wondrous thing is Environmental Inequalities.

Owain

[Bruce]

It might be old hat, but it has generated a lot of employment for quality consultants, auditors etc., and has probably seen more trees cut down for papermaking than any other single activity.

In my opinion, having worked with QA since 1981, it is the biggest waste of time, effort and money ever.

Meaningful and relevant scenarios at this moment in time?

[The Natural Philosopher]

It depends whose doing it and why.

in any business EVERYONM OUGHT to be working for QA. there shouldn't be a department.

That's a sign someone hasn;'t really understood what it means.

[Bruce]

I couldn't agree more. The best companies are those whose quality system and management system are one and the same system.

Too often, quality assurance is a separate department with separate personnel and a separate line management structure. That's a complete waste of time, effort and money.

[mark]

Quality assurance is old hat. The next wondrous thing is Environmental Inequalities.

Owain

Is TQ (Total Quality) still around?

mark

[The Natural Philosopher]

I hope so.

I read up on all this stuff years ago when getting BS whatever was a sexy thing to do.

If you follow the spirit of it, you get happier customers andmore productivity at no extra cost ultimately.

Why would you NOT follow it?

The whole point is to avoid making the same mistake twice: as such its a logical extension of production engineering practice.