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.

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cambridge philosopher (via A Word a Day)