Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

a flexible variable in a tool

Chinese translation:

一个灵活可变的工具; 一个工具的灵活可变性

Added to glossary by MichelleYou
Mar 15, 2012 07:45
12 yrs ago
English term

a flexible variable in a tool

English to Chinese Bus/Financial Finance (general) building a World-class ba
Achieving success on a global scale through standardization, the experts agree, also is dependent on maintaining enough flexibility to deal with inherent inconsistencies across markets in areas such as compliance, payments and deposits, not to mention cultural differences. But Wells Fargo's ($1.3 trillion in assets) Holroyde warns that there's a very fine line between ***a flexible variable in a tool*** and too much customization.
"One product that works more places consistently but gives up a little nuance in other global markets is better in the end," he insists. "You need to remain flexible without going down the rabbit hole of mass customization. If you do that, you'll start to lose track of variables, spend too much time reacting and fixing things, and then you'll lose sight of real effort."
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Mar 20, 2012 05:05: MichelleYou Created KOG entry

Discussion

MichelleYou Mar 16, 2012:
It means that there is a very thin line between these two things and you may easily cross the line if you are not careful enough and give too much flexibility to a tool. It would become a mass customization and you would lose control.
The next paragraph have explained that clearly.

So you may say:
一个工具的灵活可变性和过多的定制之间有很细微的界限。

clearwater (asker) Mar 15, 2012:
there's a very fine line between a flexible variable in a tool and too much customization.
灵活可变的工具和大量的定制之间的区别并不明显?

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一个灵活可变的工具; 一个工具的灵活可变性

either way, depends on how do you want to translate the whole sentence.

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Note added at 18 hrs (2012-03-16 01:48:59 GMT)
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一个工具的灵活可变性和过多的定制之间有很细微的界限
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