Nose by role

Remembering that the 'nose' stands for the evaluative process (form and function - fit, too), one can apply this anywhere.

A recent example could be a new airplane program. There would plenty of nose types involved here.

For one, there would be the internally based nose whose operation results in the public stances and statements. One could imagine all sorts of permutations, though, in differences between the organizations, such as engineering, manufacturing, PR, etc. Even management would split between the operational types and executives.

Now outside, there would be even more. Yet, what a nose in the outside would have access to would be what the company allows to be exhibited. As one would guess, that would be a fairly strained entity (in the sense of filtered) and probably of a better odor than is real.

How can the nose know?

Modified: 06/01/2008