Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
- Posts: 635
Hello all,
If anyone had any lingering doubts that the English language as an intelligible entity was utterly dead/kaput/buried, maimed then murdered in a miasma of bureau-quangic jargonesy double-speak and triple-think, then in a couple of minutes' time you won't be, after reading this right royal pearler from the KCC website 'describing' the Gateway malarkey-thingy that's being "rolled-out" (yuk!) across Kent.
If anyone has the foggiest what any of the following means then go to the top of the English class and treat yourself to a copy of the OED:
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Gateway roll-out
Gateway is an innovative response to customer demand, offering transactional services in high street locations. It moves on from the traditional one-stop-shop and meets customer needs with multi-agency and cross-sector solutions.
Gateway is designed to be a destination brand - focused upon location. It brings front office services together in high quality, fully accessible retail locations, without the stigma often associated with public sector agencies. This helps to attract hard to reach groups.
Gateway - the future is retail
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See? Absolutely blinding. Told you so!
Cheers,
Andy
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
uumm yes
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
- Posts: 2,119
Come along now Andrew.
Some pillock behind a desk must have impressed his employers with that one and at the same time got well paid for it or is on an already high wage.
As he was writing that one up he must have thought of people like us and thought....AH this one will get them.
Ian...
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
This is of course a sad joke being played upon local government.
No organisation like KCC would use such words as if they did they would be demonstrating a complete ignorance of reality.
Th future is retail - Really?
it is a joke - please tell me its too hot to laugh too much
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 2,335
It does not compute
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
can you expand on that barry, too many longs word mate.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
KCC's own website says:
Gateway is a customer-focused service offering residents convenient physical access to frontline customer advisors from a wide range of public services, in a modern retail setting.
Ashford Gateway opened in September 2005 as a pilot which proved a great success. The strength of the pilot has underpinned the strategic roll-out which may see sixteen more Kent Gateways across the county.
Services include:
•information and self help, including free internet, service directory, payment kiosk
•routine advice and transactions, including bus passes, refuse, parking, licensing
•surgeries by agencies such as Hi Kent, Connexions, NHS and registrars
•cross agency services, including council tax, benefits, planning, housing, library, adult education and occupational therapy
There are plans to extend services to include private sector partners such as pharmacies, to support the public health agenda.
Gateway is complementary to web, telephone and traditional home-visiting. It unites services under a neutral brand, removing the confusion of lots of public service organisations. Gateway is a destination for the whole community.
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
Ah, good old management-speak. I always love it when hot-shot management folk try to use dressy language to make mundane matters sound incredibly important and important matters sound baffling. It must take them a considerable amount of time in their focus groups and outreach research sessions to compose such jargon-centric blue-sky thinking. This is so outside the box, so leading edge, capitalising on the entire feature-set and versioning the dynamic content to suit the appropriate targets. A real fusion of synergy, innovation, and bo***cks.
Yep - I always love the pretentious claptrap that comes out of management-speak, and I applaud the idiots that use it so wildly. Long may they remain frontline accessible.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i fink i no wot u r all goin on abaht.
just out of interest, why is there nothing outside out gateway centre to say what is inside.?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
With all the publicity about it (?) they expect people to just know, Howard.
Why state the "bleedin' obvious" ?
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
its bleedin obvious that no ones knows whats going on in there.
