Tower Defense as a Metaphor

Yesterday while I was chatting with a co-worker, he was playing one of those tower defense games.  You know the type, a bunch stuff is trying to break through and you build up different types of towers to try and stop that stuff.  Anyways, we were talking about process improvement ideas and I was watching the game and it go me to thinking.

Those games are the perfect metaphor for corporate America.  You are the faceless entity that is trying to make a breakthrough within your company.  Arrayed against you is a number of obstacles that pick away at you until you finally disappear (or melt into the culture...take your pick).  If you make it through, there are always more levels (well not quite).   As the company gets larger, it can implement more things to pick away you.

So those towers represent all the procedures, forms, etc. that stand in your way to progress....


anyways...random thought.