Are you a digital leader or a high-maintenance digital dunce?

Monday 17th August 2015 13:59 GMT Ken 16

"batting mobile out of the park"

I'm not sure what that means, my first interpretation was that they have decided it's not worth pursuing but that doesn't seem to make sense in context. This is a real enquiry not meant sarcastically.

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1. Monday 17th August 2015 14:41 GMT Dan 55
  
  Re: "batting mobile out of the park"
  
  I just drowned in buzzword bingo. Sometimes a chart is better...
  
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2. Monday 17th August 2015 16:10 GMT BlartVersenwaldIII
  
  Re: "batting mobile out of the park"
  
  I'm not fluent in marketing-speke but I'll have a stab at translation:
  
  Batting = becoming more bat-like = more akin to Batman
  
  Mobile = Intercloud of Stuff = stuff that can do stuff either hither or yon
  
  Out of the park = horizontal and vertical elevation = flying around
  
  Therefore it means Batman uses the Intercloud of Stuff when whizzing about in his Bat-flying-thing (Bat-bat? I didn't see the films), and this is something that everyone can agree just makes Good Business Sense, therefore your company should be more like Batman and your employees should be given jetpacks with an internet connection.
  
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  1. Monday 17th August 2015 17:20 GMT I ain't Spartacus
    
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    So what you're saying is that companies should be like a monomaniac, emotionally repressed, psychopath with a nice line in S&M clothing and go to very expensive parties. Great! Where do I sign up?
    
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3. Tuesday 18th August 2015 12:09 GMT Ken 16
  
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  I assume, since all the replies are taking the piss out of the phrase, that no one else knows what it means, in terms of the article, either?
  
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Monday 17th August 2015 15:38 GMT Roo

Season with a pinch of cynicism.

The raw data for these conclusions is based on a "Survey", so there is a very strong possibility that all it is measuring is the amount of effort that people put into self-promotion and buzzword bingo. Did HP hand out dune cones to the folks who failed to promote themselves properly or buy lots of HP kit ?

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Monday 17th August 2015 17:18 GMT I ain't Spartacus

This article leads me to two conclusions:

1. Should you be taking advice on how to run your business from HP? How much did they spend on Autonomy again? Also they've not been notably successful at picking CEOs, or mergers, or making consumer tech that isn't horrible or writing printer drivers less than half a gigabyte in size...

2. Actually HP aren't totally stupid. Their metric of being an IT leader is if you spend more money on HP kit. And everyone wants to be a leader. Those nasty laggards only spend their budget on maintaining what they've already got. So Booooooo to them, I say. Booooo!

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1. Monday 17th August 2015 20:26 GMT Roo
  
  "Those nasty laggards only spend their budget on maintaining what they've already got. So Booooooo to them, I say. Booooo!"
  
  Yeah, all those laggardly people using -11s to run nuclear plants should be ashamed of themselves. HP should march in there and replace them with a nice shiny Itanium right now for free to show them what they are missing.
  
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