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An impressive tool for eliminating consultant-speak from written communications has arrived, and from an unlikely source, reports the NY Times:
The people blamed for incentivizing companies to repurpose, build mindshare and utilize change agents have taken aim at their own lingo.Deloitte Consulting, an arm of the accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, has developed a free software program, Bullfighter, that identifies jargon in documents. The goal is to make it easier for investors to decipher what companies are trying to say, said Chelsea Hardaway, the Deloitte marketing director who led the team that designed the software.
"We hope that it is a fun way to make business communications safer for all of us," Ms. Hardaway said. Upon request, she shifted effortlessly to the language of consultants to offer an alternative — or, perhaps, actually the same — explanation: "We envision a center of excellence where our accelerated change agents can maximize their core competencies."
The software, which works like a spelling checker program to spot questionable words and phrases in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents..."
To read more about the software and download it free of charge, visit the Deloitte Consulting website.
(Hat tip to G. Baron for the link.)