A committee that finally had something to do

An internal committee that had met twice in four years, and the six months after somebody put a name and a number on the notice board.

01 · TWO MEETINGS IN FOUR YEARS

Two meetings in four years

The committee existed, was correctly constituted, and had met twice since it was formed. Nobody could name a member.

02 · A NAME AND A NUMBER

A name and a number

One notice board, four names, one mobile number. Reports went from none in four years to seven in six months -- which the plant read, correctly, as the system starting to work rather than failing.

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