CompSci//Media Arts - Your Fake Client

Them, a fake

Client

Some time before now...

Logo by Reddit user elwifi

Notes from the Logo's designer:
- The vertical lines on the R; many companies coming together as a conglomerate, or the bars of a jail cell- The R also has a sickle to represent economic revolution- The horizontal lines on C show the company 'spreading' back to the people, or disappearing into thin air as ended up happening, or can also be the stairs leading down to Mary Kathleen's catacombs- J stands out in RAMJAC for book title Jailbird which goes more into depth about RAMJAC than most of Vonnegut's other books

The RAMJAC Corporation

The RAMJAC Corporation was a multinational conglomerate / megacorp. At its height, the company owned 19 percent of the United States, twice as large as the next largest conglomerate in the Free World.

RAMJAC was established by Jack Graham, a mining engineer from West Virginia. After his death, Mrs. Mary Kathleen O'Looney Graham inherited the company. Under her guidance, the company's unofficial motto became "acquire, acquire, acquire," which lead to the conglomerate's vast holdings. Two years after her death, it was discovered that she had transferred ownership of RAMJAC to the "people of the United States," as part of a misguided attempt to bring about widespread state ownership. With concerns regarding potential underlying communist intents, the U.S. government immediately began selling off RAMJAC's assets.

Note: RAMJAC isn't real. RAMJAC can't hurt you.
RAMJAC is a fake company from the pages of American author,
Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan, etc).

Where do you
come in?

As the different companies are being sold off, the change in ownership is resulting in many of systems and structures going under review. The new owner of one of these companies has contacted you and your consulting firm regarding their new acquisition. Their new acquisition is a bit of a mess, and they've contacted y'all to try to help them.

TASK

We're going to use a 1d6 to roll for some RNG (random number generation) for this. 1D6 is a common way to state that you'll roll 1 6-sided die. This notation is commonly used in table top games.

You'll need 5 total random numbers generated this way.

Once you have your random numbers, you'll need to assign them to the different categories below.

About the company

Type of Company

1. Money related: Bank, fitness, tax prep, etc?

2. Fitness-related: Gym, sport supplies, etc?

3. Placement / hiring Service

4. Food related: fastfood, cafe, farm, etc?

5. Transportation: taxi service, postal, trucking, etc?

6. industrial: powerplant, manufacturing, etc?

Adjective for Mascot

1. Wooly or Arctic

2. Prismatic, Rainbow, or Ethereal

3. Liquid, Gaseous, or Solid

4. Robotic or Mecha

5. Passive or Fierce

6. Adhesive or Persistent

Company Mascot

1. Capybara or Jerboa

2. Rafflesia, Venus Flytrap, or Pumpkin

3. Squonk or Big Foot

4. Jackalope or Minhocao

5. Unicorn or Qilin

6. Dropbear or Burrunjor

Location

1. Near-earth orbit

2. Desert

3. Underwater

4. On a boat

5. Seaside

6. Past (accessible via time machine)

What's their problem?

1. Theft (cyber or physical? internal or external?)

2. Unskilled Workers (issues w/ training? interviewing?)

3. Legacy System

4. Data Loss (cause? natural disasters? cyber attacks?)

5. Low earnings due to poor performance against competition

6. Disorganization in records and stock, resulting uncertainty in ROI

What comes next?

Later, you and your consulting company will need to draft up a plan to help your client solve their problem. The values related to your rolls must be used, but you can take liberties with other unspecified aspects. The plan you present as consultants can relate to any of the areas of systems that we've looked into; including related to people/staffing, training, software, hardware, etc.

See examples from previous years:
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