Gerry Charbonneau
The term “business model” describes a broad range of informal and formal models that are used by enterprises to represent various aspects of business, including its purpose, offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices and operational processes and policies. Although the term can be traced to the 1950s, it achieved mainstream usage only in the 1990s.
“A business model is a conceptual tool that contains a big set of elements and their relationships and allows expressing the business logic of a specific firm. It is a description of the value a company offers to one or several segments of customers and of the architecture of the firm and its network of partners for creating, marketing, and delivering this value and relationship capital, to generate profitable and sustainable revenue streams.” • • ” Osterwalder, Pigneur and Tucci (2005)”
The “organized failure business model” lacks any formal definition but is readily apparent to those ants who must conduct their everyday business lives around the parameters and guidelines the system supports.
The workplace dominated by this retrograde business model blatantly exhibits the following characteristics:
1. The motto “Arbeit macht frei” is emblazoned on the employee entranceway.
2. Snitching and backstabbing are the main forms of social control.
3. The onsite warehouse manager acts as if his mother and father were actually brother and sister.
4. Nepotism is the rule and not the exception.
5. Part time causal workers are treated like royalty.
6. Supervisory staff know less about what’s going on at work than the man in the street.
7. Special employees are able to wear noxious and debilitating perfumes to work with management’s blessing.
8. To climb the social ladder publicly display your latest copy of Sports Digest.
9. Employees are publicly chastised in front of their work group for doing the right thing at work without management’s consent.
10. Tell your employees everyday that they are “second to none” while at the same time decreasing their pension benefits and salaries.
Such is the life of the modern day worker ant.
I’m a full time employee who enjoys blogging and life.