New blog, new directions-
Why "Operations Theatre"?

I think that many people will have differing opinions about what the "easiest" topic to speak/write about is when you are in a new situation. Is it yourself? The weather? The Charter?

I'm not going to Wade into that sort of discussion here. However, I will bring it up because I think that the first post on a new blog is somewhat similar. You have to decide what kind of topic you will discuss, with the unconscious fear that you first impression will not be a good one, or a lasting one.

However, in some ways, a first blog post is easier than a random encounter. After all, the blog has a title, and the title may interest readers, and should help to establish the content of the blog.

The title of this blog is operations theatre. Why choose something so vague, might you ask? On my personal blog, I mention that this new one is intended to serve as an outlet for writing about professional topics, or topics that relate to my professional interests.

Well, my area of work concerns "operations". That is, the functional area of an organization responsible for the ongoing activities and processes that "turn inputs into outputs." This means administration of processes, procedure production and maintenance, training, and monitoring of business activities.

However, being relatively new to the "corporate world", I often find myself perplexed or puzzled by many of the peculiarities that I encounter. Most "operations" tasks, especially monitoring ones, seem to have been implemented to meet a previously required need and never reevaluated. That is, an ad hoc task that becomes routine. This is why I find so much of my daily work involves some "theatre". There are characters, plots, and motivations that seem fine to people on the inside (like the plot of a story), but peculiar to the outside - the interested audience. I am looking to write about my own experiences, bridging the internal and external frames of reference. Although much of what I see and do is not "theatrical", I think that the word can describe the experience of someone observing from the outside. Thus, my blog title. Enjoy.