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I am writing a paper about my job and I want to start out with an analogy. I want to say that each department within the company is dependent upon another and that the success of our product relies on each deparment doing its job.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Please move to General. Thanks mod!

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How about a real scenerio about how they relate to one another instead? Such as, how without each department doing their part (*insert function that needed to be done here*) never would have gotten done, or would have wound up being horribly wrong.

I was never good at analogies, lol, but I always enjoyed reading papers that were done in this manner. They give a better in depth idea of the kind of job you have.

Oh, is this for school? Or for work? Because that would make a serious difference on how you wrote the paper.

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How about a real scenerio about how they relate to one another instead? Such as, how without each department doing their part (*insert function that needed to be done here*) never would have gotten done, or would have wound up being horribly wrong.

I was never good at analogies, lol, but I always enjoyed reading papers that were done in this manner. They give a better in depth idea of the kind of job you have.

Oh, is this for school? Or for work? Because that would make a serious difference on how you wrote the paper.

This is for work. I work with benefit administation. I need an analogy. Maybe something like a working machine that different parts must work together for it to work at all. What you suggested is what the whole paper will be about. I just need an intro, after that I should be able to role this thing out.

Thanks!

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Well, much of nature is like that. Ants, bees, etc.

Or, pretend your department is a sports team, like football, and describe how one play goes down substituting various departments for players on the field.

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This is for work. I work with benefit administation. I need an analogy. Maybe something like a working machine that different parts must work together for it to work at all. What you suggested is what the whole paper will be about. I just need an intro, after that I should be able to role this thing out.

Thanks!

Yeah, since it isn't a school thing, an analogy would work much better. Good luck with it! Intro's are always are hardest part.

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Thanks for the ideas but I am still not getting it. Here is my subject and goal, maybe this will help.

Subject: Roles and Responsibilities

Goal: Explain how roles and responsibilities of an implementation analyst affect the different departments within [Company Name].

I was thinking something like this (maybe help me fill in the missing parts?)

Much like your favorite sports team striving to win a championship, a business, no matter the nature, can only be successful if all of the employees are working towards achieving the same goals. Each department within the organization must work together as a team to satisfy the customers needs. Every employee needs to understand how their roles and responsibilities

(its missing something and kinda runs on? Any ideas?)

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Off the top of my head and the tip of my fingertips but you could always compare it to a computer.

Parts to make a whole, communication within to work properly, if one part doesn't work specifically for what it is meant to the whole thing goes out of whack for a while and it takes time to find & fix the problem before you can continue using the system.

Might be more, can't think much right now.

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Human body can readily be used as a micro comparison for how humans themselves function on a macro level. Humans on a macro level have their own form of "brains", lungs, circulatory system, liver, etc.

Any particular organ fails, and the rest of the body tries to compensate before it itself fails.

When the appendix fails, even if otherwise considered insignificant, the whole body is affected and requires surgery lest it die as a whole. When, say, a kidney goes, the whole body must deal with it and is at risk of death; when the circulatory system fails, no organ gets its required blood and oxygen, etc., etc.

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