Management Speak: While we cannot predict what will happen in the future, we remain focused on growth and on creating opportunities for the people who contribute to the company’s excellence. Our goal is to concurrently link growth of the business base with ongoing productivity initiatives so that additional business offsets job reductions that ordinarily would result from efficiency improvements.
Translation: Be thankful you get to keep your job.
Today’s unnamed IS Survivalist found the new and improved version of “work smarter, not harder.”

ManagementSpeak: IT costs will be variabilized/unitized to provide transparency and to route the cost to the point of consumption.
Translation: Charge-backs for IT services are about to go retail … and we’re using Macy’s, not K-Mart, as our pricing role-model.
The anonymous IS Survivalist who provided this episode in our ongoing saga of management obfuscation chooses to obfuscate his identity to protect his career.