>From Bruce's post:
>... I have yet to see either an individual or group
>voluntarily explore the option of going with an "a + b" option. Most
>managers feel that they prove their insight or intellectual horsepower by
>the ever so clever route they pursued in reaching the conclusion to select
>"a" vs "b." In most of these instances a better choice would have been
>the "A+B" option. Unfortunately most decision makers assume that this
>most profitable middle ground is not a legitimate choice. ...
I see management struggling with the A+B option all the time. But that may
simply be a difference in our samples.
There's a caveat in the A+B option that is occasionally overlooked: In the
final implementation, have the merits of both A and B been incorporated -
or somewhere along the way did it become "the worst of both worlds"?
Hence, contributing to the declining reputation of compromise and
pragmitism.
Not that A+B doesn't work. I just think that one must pay particular
attention to the details in how the implementation evolves. New dynamics
are often introduced that are not obvious up front.
-- Doug Blair dblair@ix.netcom.com