The little house on Owl Meadow

In the natural world - oxygen breathing living organisms generate waste in the form of ammonia (NH3)
In large quantities, ammonia is extremely toxic and exposure to large quantities of ammonia ultimately leads to death.

However, the natural order of our reality is balanced by Nitrosomonas, a relatively unknown bacteria in which we owe our existence to. This bacteria converts ammonia to nitrite (NO2). Nitrite in large quantities is again toxic to living organism, luckily a second bacteria comes into the picture, Nitrobacter. Nitrobacter converts nitrite to Nitrate.

Nitrate in turns becomes food for plants and organism relying on photosyntesis to convert CO2 to glucose for food and Oxygen as waste product.

Such is the order of the natural world we have lived in for millions of years.

In a small enclosed, man-made and artifical biological systemlike an aquarium, this natural cycle must be duplicated and reproduced. Hobbyist have long term this as "cycling your aquarium".

A new tank must be 'seeded' with sufficient quantities of cheap and hardy fish such as White Cloud Mountain Minnows or Zebra Danios. These fish will produce waste and ammonia to an extremely toxic level, at a threshold level of ammonia, Nitrosomonas will begin to thrive.

Once Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter has sufficiently colonize your aquarium.
You can proceed to populate your aquarium with your prized Parrot, Koi or Goldfish. These fishes have been inter-bred through many generations and are genetically inferior to withstand the harsh and polluted environment of a tank that is being cycled. Ammonia and nitrite will kill these fishes instantly.

During this period some of your Zebra Minnows may bleed to death as their organs are saturated with ammonia, but that is not your concern.

Now you can either keep your remaining Zebra Minnows or throw then away.

In an enclosed articifial, man-made biological system called an organization such natural order must be reproduced. Organizations are populated by hunch-down human beings, nicely packaged into square cubicles. Any change or introduction of change in the form of SAP, SCM, ERP .NET will ultimately lead to the demise of the organization as these hunch-down human beings suffocate at the poisonous and intoxicating deluge of information and change.


To begin cycling of the tank, Organizations introduce a hardy, strong and preferably dispensable breed of humans called Consultants. These Consultants will be faced head-on with the tide of change, pounded with long hours of sleepless nights until a new bacteria called a System is fully introduced into the Organization.
During this period, some Consultants will die and suffer irrepairable spiritual damage, but this is not the concern of Organizations.


In the end, these genetically inferior hunch-down humans will inherit the System and fully thrive in the System. Consultants can then be kept or thrown away.