information product planning, and development and maintenance functions

English translation: Yes, you are correct

17:00 Oct 28, 2007

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / Web

English term or phrase: information product planning, and development and maintenance functions

The re-organization should be designed to support more dynamic, citizen driven information product planning, and development and maintenance functions

I read it: to support functions of maintenance, functions of development and functions of planning (all these functions) related to more dynamic and more citizen driven products

Am I correct?

Thanks in advance

Michel A. KudoZ activity Questions: 406 (1 open) (71 closed without grading) Answers: 4299
Local time: 14:32

Selected answer:Yes, you are correct

Explanation:
This kind of construction is so familiar to me from my nearly 20 years working in telecom management consulting. The only reason I haven't rated my confidence a 5 is that that would suggest that I there is no other possible meaning. But actually given the context and my experience with such texts (and their authors!), it's all I can do to resist rating this a 5.

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Note added at 3 days1 hr (2007-10-31 18:25:19 GMT) Post-grading
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Just to clarify, that would be a reorganisation that, with respect to INFORMATION products, results in planning functions, development functions, and maintenance functions that are more dynamic and citizen-driven. (As a result the end products themselves are more citizen-driven.)

Selected response from:

Deborah Workman
United States
Local time: 14:32

Grading comment

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +1

their organisation needs to be dynamic and citizen-driven

Sheila Wilson

2 +3

mind you...

Tony M

4 +1

Yes, you are correct

Deborah Workman

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32 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

their organisation needs to be dynamic and citizen-driven

Explanation:
I don't believe it's the products that need to be more dynamic and citizen-driven - it's their organisation that needs to change.

The way they handle a) information product planning, b) development functions, and c) maintenance functions needs to to be more dynamic and citizen-driven.

Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 19:32
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

42 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

mind you...

Explanation:
Given the punctuation as it stands, there is even a third possibility:

that the re-organization need to support:
1) information product planning that is more dynamic and citizen-driven
2) functions for development and maintenance.

It seems that would make more sense, inasmuch as 'product planning' is something that would lend itself readily to being 'citizen-driven', whereas development and maintenance functions migiht be less so...

Tony M
France
Local time: 20:32
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

7 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Yes, you are correct

Deborah Workman
United States
Local time: 14:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thanks

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