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Business LogicSome people think business logic is what you build business applications around. While this is technically true, I don't feel it really represents how a business thinks. How can a business think though? It is just an organization made up of people. It can't have thoughts of its own. Can it? I think business is pretty much the same everywhere. Big companies and small companies usually share one thing at some point, a person with an MBA. Now before you think I'm going to lay into people with MBAs, my MBA is a great guy. He just happens to suffer from a case of business logic. MBAs are the root of business logic. They all go to business school. Now, I've never been to business school, but I'm beginning to think that they pretty much teach the same things everywhere. It's like science really. Everyone thinks that science is all open and ideas flow freely. Nothing is further from the truth. Ideas that stray too far from the mainstream are ridiculed, get no money, and get laughed out of whatever University they are working at. So, with an MBA, they learn business logic at business school, and everyone sticks to the status quo. Recently I've made some observations about business math. Business math is a subset of business logic. Now, these are only observations. I have no hypothesis, no concrete data, and no double blind tests to back anything up. If you have five people doing the work of five people, you lose money. You aren't productive enough to compete with people willing to do more work for the same amount of money. They will get your business because they are willing to make sacrifices. If you have five people doing the work of six people, you are breaking even. You are right about the level of everyone else. If you have five people doing the work of seven people you are doing great. You are taking work from everyone else. If you have five people doing the work of seven people, and then one person leaves but you keep the same amount of work you are making even more profit! You see, as long as you can keep adding work without adding employees you can make a killer profit. Employees are the biggest roadblocks to profits. I know Scott Adams probably already wrote this in one of his books or Dilbert strips'but I'm living it so it matters a little more to me now. The big problem is that business logic only makes sense to the people with MBAs. I don't have an MBA, so business logic and business math don't make a whole lot of sense to me. I see things from a different perspective. Of course, I don't have to pay the bills to get the doors open, the T1 up, and make sure all those profit sucking employees have a paycheck every two weeks. To the people with MBAs, I feel your pain, can you feel mine? Thanks to my editor Kim
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