Welcome Poem

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Let me start this Blog with a poem, I started my career's first WOW project as a business analyst with a presentation that started with this poem...{From a poem by Walter Foss}

Once upon a time there was a calf.
One evening he walked home through a thick jungle.
The distance to his home was only one kilometre but he walked three kilometres since, like all calves, he wandered here and there, left and right, up and down.
The next morning a shepherd’s dog passed that way and saw the calf’s hoof marks, and followed the path of this calf through the woods.
Shortly after, the first sheep of a flock followed the path and behind him all the other sheep. Thus a path was made through the woods
Men began to use that path, cursing its twists and turns as they did, but doing nothing about it.
The path gradually became a lane, the lane became a road and horses and bullock carts followed it - followed the steps of the wandering calf.
A century later the road became a street, and then a city’s crowded thoroughfare, with thousands following in the footsteps of the wobbly calf.
Three centuries later the road became the main street of a very large city. Buses, lorries, trams and cars followed the zigzag path of the calf.

“A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead
They followed still his crooked way
And lost one hundred years a day...
For men are prone to go it blind
Along the calf-path of the mind
And work away from sun to sun
They follow in the beaten track,
And out and in and forth and back,
And still their twisting course pursue
To keep the path that others do,
They keep the path a sacred groove,
Along which all their lives they move.”

The above poem captures the essence of what I have been doing as a Retail Business Analyst

The purpose of this blog is to discuss retail specific issues that may be of interest to a Retail Business Analyst

Ajay Bohra
Retail Business Analyst