Expense Authorization Example

Physics is better than Programming

OLD HR Policy: IF ASSIGNED-DEPARTMENT-HEAD(Person, Authority)
                                 THEN DEPARTMENT-HEAD(Person)

NEW HR Policy: IF SUM(REPORTS-TO(Person, X))>10
                                THEN DEPARTMENT-HEAD(Person)

With enterprise physics, one just changes the laws of the enterprise.
(How long would it take your MIS people to code such a simple change?)



@copy 2007 Charles Petrie - permission to reproduce widely with attribution