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I Now Plan Laptops the Way Our Buyers Plan Stock

I Now Plan Laptops the Way Our Buyers Plan Stock

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The Reorganisation Was One Slide and Thirty Eight Places in Our Systems

The Reorganisation Was One Slide and Thirty Eight Places in Our Systems

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Our Carriers Were Auditing Our Product Data and Finance Paid for It

Our Carriers Were Auditing Our Product Data and Finance Paid for It

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Our Supplier Sells One Environment and It Is Production

Our Supplier Sells One Environment and It Is Production

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Our Warehouse Wireless Was Surveyed When the Racking Was Empty

Our Warehouse Wireless Was Surveyed When the Racking Was Empty

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Our Most Common Data Breach Began With the First Three Letters of a Name

Our Most Common Data Breach Began With the First Three Letters of a Name

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The Printer That Decides Whether a Lorry Leaves Was Bought Like Stationery

The Printer That Decides Whether a Lorry Leaves Was Bought Like Stationery

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I Can Name Our Suppliers and Not Theirs

I Can Name Our Suppliers and Not Theirs

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Every Large Tender Now Costs My Department Two Weeks

Every Large Tender Now Costs My Department Two Weeks

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Our Two Laboratories Measured the Same Thing and Wrote Down Different Numbers

Our Two Laboratories Measured the Same Thing and Wrote Down Different Numbers

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The Rules That Decide Money Were Living in Our Scripts

The Rules That Decide Money Were Living in Our Scripts

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We Hear About a New Depot When the Keys Are Handed Over

We Hear About a New Depot When the Keys Are Handed Over

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Nobody Asked the Man in the High Visibility Jacket Anything

Nobody Asked the Man in the High Visibility Jacket Anything

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Two Thirds of What We Escalated Did Not Need an Engineer

Two Thirds of What We Escalated Did Not Need an Engineer

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The Comparison Is No Longer the System We Replaced

The Comparison Is No Longer the System We Replaced

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The Carbon Report Asked for Numbers We Had Never Counted

The Carbon Report Asked for Numbers We Had Never Counted

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We Sold Below Cost for a Week Because a File Told Us To

We Sold Below Cost for a Week Because a File Told Us To

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Our Overnight Jobs Sign In as a Man Who Left in 2022

Our Overnight Jobs Sign In as a Man Who Left in 2022

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Nothing We Could Do Would Bring It Back Sooner

Nothing We Could Do Would Bring It Back Sooner

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Our Job Adverts Named Every System We Run

Our Job Adverts Named Every System We Run

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The Continuity Exercise Stopped in the First Half Hour

The Continuity Exercise Stopped in the First Half Hour

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The Calls That Reach Us Now Are the Ones the Model Could Not Answer

The Calls That Reach Us Now Are the Ones the Model Could Not Answer

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IT Heard About the Acquisition Nine Days Before It Closed

IT Heard About the Acquisition Nine Days Before It Closed

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The Customer Number Was Free Because Somebody Else Had Finished With It

The Customer Number Was Free Because Somebody Else Had Finished With It

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We Chose the Actions by What Was Easy to Build

We Chose the Actions by What Was Easy to Build

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Every Server We Own Was Running Eleven Agents

Every Server We Own Was Running Eleven Agents

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The Customer List We Protected Everywhere Except on Paper

The Customer List We Protected Everywhere Except on Paper

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A Fifth of Our Support Demand Came From People We Do Not Employ

A Fifth of Our Support Demand Came From People We Do Not Employ

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Most of the People We Support Will Never Sit at a Desk

Most of the People We Support Will Never Sit at a Desk

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We Sold a Fifteen Minute Promise on an Overnight System

We Sold a Fifteen Minute Promise on an Overnight System

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Our Systems Were Built to Create Records, Not to Correct Them

Our Systems Were Built to Create Records, Not to Correct Them

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Sixty Automated Jobs Kept Running While the System Was Down

Sixty Automated Jobs Kept Running While the System Was Down

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Every Depot's Internet Goes Through a Room in Head Office

Every Depot's Internet Goes Through a Room in Head Office

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An Underwriter Wrote More of Our Security Programme Than I Did

An Underwriter Wrote More of Our Security Programme Than I Did

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Twelve Months of Leave Looked Exactly Like Leaving

Twelve Months of Leave Looked Exactly Like Leaving

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The Firewall Now Protects a Shrinking Part of the Company

The Firewall Now Protects a Shrinking Part of the Company

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We Could Not Afford the Salary and We Could Afford the Contractor

We Could Not Afford the Salary and We Could Afford the Contractor

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Seven Things Were Reading That Database and None of Them Were Listed

Seven Things Were Reading That Database and None of Them Were Listed

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The Policy Reached Four Hundred Laptops Before Anyone Could Stop It

The Policy Reached Four Hundred Laptops Before Anyone Could Stop It

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Our Database Licence Counted Cores We Did Not Own

Our Database Licence Counted Cores We Did Not Own

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Someone Invoiced Our Customers Using Our Own Domain

Someone Invoiced Our Customers Using Our Own Domain

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We Run Thirty Nine Sites and Have Engineers at Two

We Run Thirty Nine Sites and Have Engineers at Two

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We No Longer Choose When Our Software Changes

We No Longer Choose When Our Software Changes

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The Auto Renewal Clause Was Doing Our Negotiating For Us

The Auto Renewal Clause Was Doing Our Negotiating For Us

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We Had the Data and Not the Right to Use It That Way

We Had the Data and Not the Right to Use It That Way

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Our Automation Was Clicking Through Screens Nobody Had Promised to Keep

Our Automation Was Clicking Through Screens Nobody Had Promised to Keep

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A Letter From the Landlord Ended Our Hardware Refresh

A Letter From the Landlord Ended Our Hardware Refresh

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The Breach Was Theirs and the Question Was Ours

The Breach Was Theirs and the Question Was Ours

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The Outage Ran for Two Hours Before It Had a Name

The Outage Ran for Two Hours Before It Had a Name

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The People Who Understand Our Oldest Systems Retire Before It Does

The People Who Understand Our Oldest Systems Retire Before It Does

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Every Department Wanted the Premium Option Until It Appeared on Their Budget

Every Department Wanted the Premium Option Until It Appeared on Their Budget

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Six Hundred Reports Left Our Systems Each Month and Ninety Were Read

Six Hundred Reports Left Our Systems Each Month and Ninety Were Read

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The Scripts Holding Our Month End Together Had One Author

The Scripts Holding Our Month End Together Had One Author

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A Folder Vanished and Both Sides Thought the Other Had a Copy

A Folder Vanished and Both Sides Thought the Other Had a Copy

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They Did Not Break Our Second Factor, They Rang the Service Desk

They Did Not Break Our Second Factor, They Rang the Service Desk

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Count How Many Times You Have Fixed the Same Thing

Count How Many Times You Have Fixed the Same Thing

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Replacing an Algorithm Is a Decade of Inventory Work

Replacing an Algorithm Is a Decade of Inventory Work

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Approving a Project Cost Nothing, So We Approved Everything

Approving a Project Cost Nothing, So We Approved Everything

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The Only Thing Our Records Kept Was the Latest Answer

The Only Thing Our Records Kept Was the Latest Answer

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If the Job Cannot Show What It Did, Somebody Will Do It Again

If the Job Cannot Show What It Did, Somebody Will Do It Again

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