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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Resource Allocation Management

The brain fog in the morning hours is always thick.  The fight to gain full alert status is never won without great effort.  I am unable to drink coffee, so I must build energy the old-fashioned way.  This requires a slow, controlled ascent into the day.  This particular morning my brain was on wakeup autopilot allowing additional rest time to prevent a systems failure before breakfast.  Those are the worst.  Don't you hate it when you wake up under the kitchen table and have no idea how you got there, or how long the dog has been licking your cheek and/or gnawing on your finger?  This is the ultimate form of personal Resource Allocation Management (pRAM), and when it goes wrong, bad things happen.

RAM isn't just about people.  RAM is important to the success of  any business venture.  I am the world's best at RAM*. AcMo operates on razor thin margins. Survival is predicated on having the resources available to profit from market opportunities when they emerge. Timing is also important to the formula. One day I will share the secrets to AcMo's success. Today is not that day.  Do keep reading to learn more about our exciting company and how we are shaping the future of everything though.

Having money and not knowing where to allocate it is almost, ALMOST as bad as not having any money.  The same goes for personnel.  Key positions being filled by the wrong people can kill an organization.  A thought popped into my head while the morning fog was still burning off my brain.  I don't believe that Ferrari's Formula 1 team will be successful until there is a drastic personnel and operational change.   This means you should not be holding onto any hope of the team fighting for race wins this season, unless the four cars ahead of them all crash into each other.  We can put AcMo dollars on this if you think I'm wrong.

Marco Mattiacci was placed in charge of Ferrari's F1 team several weeks ago.  He doesn't have a background at this level of motorsport, and it is not clear that he understands the inherent complexities of the task he has been assigned.  I'm not criticizing him. If Luca di Montezemolo called and told me to take over the F1 team, I wouldn't say no even though I would have no hope of improving their performance. I might feign disinterest in an attempt to bolster my negotiating position.  Every move management has made over the past couple of seasons has been the wrong move, and the problems continue to grow.  Don't worry Ferrari, I've been there, and it can get a lot worse before it might get better.  There is no guarantee the situation will improve.

Enough about Ferrari's Formula 1 troubles.  Let's get back to the more important stuff:  AcMo's troubles.  AcMo survives on data and the brains required to analyze it. One book I did read without falling asleep during was The Art of War. I didn't understand it, but I use it as a guide to improve my leadership skills. I will also need the training when we go to war with our competitors, Skynet, or both.  I feel if something is worth doing, it is worth doing well.

AcMo has created a unique program that analyzes thousands of parameters to help us determine which market sectors are exploitable. The analysis also indicates which competitors are vulnerable to either a takeover or complete annihilation.  I don't like having to crush other companies, but sometimes there aren't other viable options.

The RAM program has alerted us that Femtomarketing is the future, and based on the program's conclusion, we are allocating 150% of our marketing budget in this direction.  The formal transition will begin next week, but I wanted all of AcMo's followers to be aware that changes, much like winter, are coming.

We anticipate that our Femtomarketing shift will increase our brand awareness by at least 1000%.  This increase will allow us to play in a much larger pool of companies.  The plan is to use a systematic approach to pick up and/or absorb weaker competitors without the marketplace knowing.  A lot of this work will be done by our special teams.

The end result should be total market domination when the campaign has concluded.  AcMo will be transformed into a holding company with subsidiaries embedded in every profitable market space.  I can understand how this could seem impossible to control to a lay person, but there are complicated business techniques involved that will make it work with seamless efficiency.  The use of manufacturing robots will also be an essential factor in our success.  AcMo does not use robots in any capacity because we don't trust them, but we build many of the robots our competitors use.  These robots are loyal to our mission, and when the time comes, they will obey.  We think.  In essence, no one will know we are there, and the strings used to control the actions of our subsidiaries will be invisible.

Speaking of invisible strings, stealth is another key element in AcMo's operational structure.  To bolster our stealth capabilities, I have requested that the research and development department recommence work on our invisibility cloaks.  When we created the cloaks, the technology was not mature enough to sustain the power required to make the cloaks function for extended periods.  This made counter-surveillance missions more difficult than necessary.  I am hopeful that the latest advancements will remove past impediments to allow the cloaks to fulfill their design parameters.  A large part of our funding depends on the success of the cloaks.

We plan to sell the previous generation cloaks to foreign militaries to fund production of the next generation that we will keep for our own purposes.  As always, we are eager to sign up beta testers for this and many other projects.  I need to disclose that there is a chance the wearer of a test cloak could become permanently invisible, but we think that has only happened on three distinct occasions.

AcMo is the way forward to a better future.  I apologize if this post seems disjointed.  Today is one of the rare days when the morning fog never lifted, and my brain couldn't switch off autopilot.  Since I am content creator and editor, sometimes you get less than what you paid for with this blog.  Don't expect a refund.  That department is also closed.  This is the first time the fog didn't clear this week.  Things will be better tomorrow.  Bet your bottom dollar.  I prefer if you're going to bet though that you use AcMo dollars.  We get a percentage of every transaction that way.








*Four out of five dentists agree. The fifth forgot to vote. 

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