The
'pincer' movement
Sometimes the best idea doesn't always win. History is littered with
tales of superior technologies unfairly consigned to the scrap heap
(who owns a Betamax?)...
Schlumberger has developed a $100million new imaging technology that makes
it possible to discover oil that other technologies cannot see.
The Church answer was not to talk about the technology but to talk about
the individual agendas of the three key decision makers within client organisations.
To one group we talked the language of business and politics, to another
the language of technology, to the third about the operational issues...
To all of them we talked about both their operational and professional
agendas.
The message cut through, the stakeholders talked to each other, the enquiries
came in... |
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