A diagonal slice...

[gingerjedi]

Just got an email asking if I want to attend 'a diagonal slice' session... WTF??? The world has gone mad.

[alreadypacked]

Originally Posted by gingerjedi

Just got an email asking if I want to attend 'a diagonal slice' session... WTF??? The world has gone mad.

Pizza anyone!

[wendigo100]

Originally Posted by gingerjedi

Just got an email asking if I want to attend 'a diagonal slice' session... WTF??? The world has gone mad.

Diagonal Slice (DS)

A diagonal slice analysis is more of a practical response to the difficulties of interviewing, assessing and reporting on lots of people within large organisations.

What DS does is accept that by taking a representative cross section (a diagonal slice through the organisation), you will pick-up a number of people within any given role, and that these people will represent the skills, knowledge and attitudes of a number of their peers.

To be effective the DS requires input from managers/line managers to ensure the analysis group really does represent a valid cross section of their team/part of the organisation.

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[wendigo100]

Originally Posted by alreadypacked

Pizza anyone!

That's a Sector Slice session.

[gingerjedi]

Oh flip me now it’s already been abbreviated to a 'DS'... I give up

[pickle]

Originally Posted by gingerjedi

Oh flip me now it’s already been abbreviated to a 'DS'... I give up

Sounds like permie nonsense to me. I sugest you decline the invite....

[ratewhore]

Ah yes, I know where you work then...

[Euro-commuter]

What DS does is accept that by taking a representative cross section (a diagonal slice through the organisation), you will pick-up a number of people within any given role, and that these people will represent the skills, knowledge and attitudes of a number of their peers.

To be effective the DS requires input from managers/line managers to ensure the analysis group really does represent a valid cross section of their team/part of the organisation.

Slice, OK. What's "diagonal" about it?

Or is it just a phrase that someone has heard (it does have a meaning: to slice or scan across 2 dimensions, gaining something from each) and thought would make their simple concept sound more cool?

Gibberish 2.0

[angusglover]

Just as long as you "keep us in the loop" on this one ok?

We should start a thread on company buzzwords....

[wendigo100]

Originally Posted by Euro-commuter

Slice, OK. What's "diagonal" about it?

Or is it just a phrase that someone has heard (it does have a meaning: to slice or scan across 2 dimensions, gaining something from each) and thought would make their simple concept sound more cool?

Gibberish 2.0

It does have a logic to it. If you imagine the hierarchies of several departments drawn side-by-side, there are your two dimensions.