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Why this exists

Marketing engineering has two prior claims on its name and no written account of what the work actually is. This property writes the account, publishes it in the open, and runs a fixed diagnostic against it.

The gap

A role can exist before anybody writes down what it does.

An academic definition tells you what a discipline studies. A job title tells you that somebody is being hired. Neither one tells a practitioner what to do on a Tuesday afternoon.

There is no published account of the order of operations. Nothing that says instrumentation goes in before the campaign rather than after, or that four of six lifecycle stages tolerate automation completely and two of them get worse when a machine is left alone with them, or what a written tolerance for a demand programme actually looks like on paper.

So the account gets written here, in the open, including the readings that went against us.

Purpose

Three jobs, in order

Written down so the property can be judged against them later.

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01

Publish the definition and maintain it

Versioned, dated, and with a record of what changed. A definition carrying a revision history is worth more than one that quietly drifts to suit whoever is selling that quarter.
02

Run studies

A fixed diagnostic against a published tolerance, sold on its own, with no plan attached. It is how the method gets tested against real companies rather than argued about at conferences.
03

Publish the record

Field notes on what was measured, including the readings that went against us. A property arguing for measurement that publishes only its wins is not worth reading.
Plate VIII  ·  Profiles, measured  ·  Public domain
Contact

Get in touch.

Questions about the definition, the method or the notes are welcome, and so is an argument with any of it.

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