They placed them in a 9 by 9 organizational matrix to fuel synergies through increased communication by placing them in a physical 9 by 9 cubicle matrix.
I don't suppose there's any chance we can send it back?
Trick it into saying its name backwards?
unless it is part of an assignment statement, a conditional, or a loop, it will have the same effect.
That's writing the name backwards.
Three times?
Where's Gene Ray when you need him?
What is this synergy/syngeries/synerging I keep hearing about? I know the meaning of the word and I see that it's some kind of a big company cliche, but where'd it come from?
Most of these terms seem to have been introduced by strategic consulting firms (e.g. McKinsey or BAH) and then filtered out into general management usage.
I don't know. My first memory of it is from Dilbert (and I can find a comic from 1997 with a synergy joke) but I would be surprised if that were the origin of the meme. It's hard to track down even when it started showing up.
Whenever I hear that word I still think of the AI that Jem uses to generate her hologram-self.