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This is simply not the definition of "operations" I'm familiar with in modern convention running. Operations as I know it is an expansion of the security and logistics function, including running the all-night office, trouble-shooters, and such. This is such a basic difference that I didn't want to jump in and start the argument right in the article :-). | This is simply not the definition of "operations" I'm familiar with in modern convention running. Operations as I know it is an expansion of the security and logistics function, including running the all-night office, trouble-shooters, and such. This is such a basic difference that I didn't want to jump in and start the argument right in the article :-). | ||
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| + | The short answer is: where I come from, Operations is the group that directly deals with the "customer". They do the heavy lifting of actually putting the "product" where the "customer" will find it. Everyone else in the organization supports this in some way or fashion, but would not likely have face to face contact. That may not be the way a typical con is actually organized, but it is the way I understand it. "Sales" "Research" and "Marketing" would be the only other groups that would likely deal with the customers directly. | ||
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| + | The Major Functions chart is a hybrid Table of Contents and Con org chart. It needs to be accurate in three different ways. It should be usable as a guide to finding information in the wiki, and it should be recognizable to a person trying to set up a Con, as well as to persons that have dealt with them for a while. I like the structure, but I'm predjudiced towards what I know. It can be changed, but it needs to be both simple and accurate. --[[User:Bill Taylor|Bill Taylor]] 19:30, 10 Oct 2005 (PDT) | ||
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| + | ps. Is this a "more than one right way" situation? You've done it one way for one thing, I've done it a different way for a different thing. | ||
Revision as of 18:30, 10 October 2005
This is simply not the definition of "operations" I'm familiar with in modern convention running. Operations as I know it is an expansion of the security and logistics function, including running the all-night office, trouble-shooters, and such. This is such a basic difference that I didn't want to jump in and start the argument right in the article :-).
Cultural relativity
The short answer is: where I come from, Operations is the group that directly deals with the "customer". They do the heavy lifting of actually putting the "product" where the "customer" will find it. Everyone else in the organization supports this in some way or fashion, but would not likely have face to face contact. That may not be the way a typical con is actually organized, but it is the way I understand it. "Sales" "Research" and "Marketing" would be the only other groups that would likely deal with the customers directly.
The Major Functions chart is a hybrid Table of Contents and Con org chart. It needs to be accurate in three different ways. It should be usable as a guide to finding information in the wiki, and it should be recognizable to a person trying to set up a Con, as well as to persons that have dealt with them for a while. I like the structure, but I'm predjudiced towards what I know. It can be changed, but it needs to be both simple and accurate. --Bill Taylor 19:30, 10 Oct 2005 (PDT)
ps. Is this a "more than one right way" situation? You've done it one way for one thing, I've done it a different way for a different thing.
