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20th June 2007, 15:00
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A diagonal slice...
Just got an email asking if I want to attend 'a diagonal slice' session... WTF??? The world has gone mad.
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20th June 2007, 15:04
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Contractor Among Contractors
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Originally Posted by gingerjedi
Just got an email asking if I want to attend 'a diagonal slice' session... WTF??? The world has gone mad.
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Pizza anyone! |
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20th June 2007, 15:06
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Originally Posted by gingerjedi
Just got an email asking if I want to attend 'a diagonal slice' session... WTF??? The world has gone mad.
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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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20th June 2007, 15:06
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Godlike
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Originally Posted by alreadypacked
Pizza anyone!
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That's a Sector Slice session. |
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20th June 2007, 15:11
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Oh flip me now it’s already been abbreviated to a 'DS'... I give up 
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Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to keep on my toes - Frank Drebin
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20th June 2007, 15:20
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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.... |
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20th June 2007, 16:17
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Ah yes, I know where you work then...
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21st June 2007, 06:44
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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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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
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21st June 2007, 06:55
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Just as long as you "keep us in the loop" on this one ok?
We should start a thread on company buzzwords....
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21st June 2007, 06:57
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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?
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It does have a logic to it. If you imagine the hierarchies of several departments drawn side-by-side, there are your two dimensions. |
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