Chief Disambiguator

Friday is the day of C-level titles and the Chief Disambiguator is one if not the most important function in any corporation. With all the ambigious information coming in from business intelligence, strategy consultants, customers -- there has to be somebody to paint a coherent picture of the situation and make the right decision. Unfortunately a lot of people int his job rely solely on their gut to make the calls -- not a good basis for disambiguating and you see the results daily in the news.

In a related function each software project needs a chief disambiguator who dissects ambiguous definitions in the specification and makes the right calls what the customer actually meant (a novel concept asks for actually asking the customer). Given that roughly 50% of software projects fail it seems that disambiguator there also rely to much on their gut than on reality -- or could easily be replaced by flipping a coin with the same outcome.

In the financial industry Chief Disambiguators are often called Chief Risk Officer or Chief Economist - Ben Bernanke or Helicopter Ben for his friends for instance is a classical example of a chief disambiguator: should he raise interest rates, keep them the same, or lower them. There are reports and number who support either direction...

Because we only report on titles each workday we will be out until Tuesday.