RE: Operational Excellence - True or False? (Feel free to explain if so inclined)

  • From: "Taylor, Chris David" <ChrisDavid.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'Michael.Coll-Barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <Michael.Coll-Barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:23:17 -0500

Yikes!  Yes, I think you need to eat :)

I actually made the conscious decision to not define Operational Excellence 
because it is different for each organization.  Operational excellence might be 
recognized by providing 5 9s of availability (99.999) because that is what is 
determined as the measuring stick for a particular organization.  A different 
organization may strive for response time for 90% of queries to complete in 
under 10 ms.  Obviously these are simplistic examples.

I think you have made the mistake of equating excellence with infallible or 
inerrant (or perhaps both).  Perhaps to you that is what operational excellence 
is.  To be inerrant and/or infallible.

I hope that helps.

--Chris

From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Coll-Barth, Michael
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:13 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Operational Excellence - True or False? (Feel free to explain if 
so inclined)


What utter nonsensical, management double speak; 'operational excellence'.

But, I'll play.



Care to define the term?


If I were to take the term at face value, I'd have to say that there are very 
few out there that could be considered excellent at anything.  Some of us may 
be very good or even damn good, but excellent?  No.  Even someone like Tom Kyte 
has failings and he'd be the first to tell you that.  Just check out his web 
site.

As written, the statement is false and inflammatory.

Add the following line;  'But that individual could provide the operational 
proficiency that is quite a bit more than good enough', and the statement 
becomes true and reasonable.


And with that said, 'excellence' is something to be strived for by everyone, 
but is rarely, if ever, achieved by anyone.



I haven't eaten today, so perhaps I'm just not feeling excellent.  Ted, Bill?  
You ready to head out?  Your stepmom *is* cute, though.


From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Taylor, Chris David
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:47 PM
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Operational Excellence - True or False? (Feel free to explain if so 
inclined)

I just want to get an idea of where some of you fall on this statement...

Truth Statement:
Due to the differences in Oracle and Microsoft database products, an individual 
person cannot provide operational excellence in both products with regard to 
the management of large enterprise data stores.

(That is, to achieve operational excellence in regard to enterprise data 
management of large data stores managed by both Oracle and SQL Server, you need 
individuals who specialize in each technology).

--Chris

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