Posts by John Holley
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Hard News: The unstable Supercity, in reply to Bart Janssen,
In the ARC's case, the business owners (GMs) owned the projects, not IT. So the business owners were clear on what they wanted to achieve against the budget/timeline they had.
It is always a problem when IT "does" a project/implementation for some part/all of an organisation. In my experience you get much better results when IT supports the project - there are no such things as IT projects, but there are projects that have IT dependencies :)
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Hard News: The unstable Supercity, in reply to TracyMac,
Well we had two SAP projects at the ARC that were on budget/time and delivered the promised benefits, Asset Management with live linkage to GIS (SAP Plant Maintenance and ESRI GIS) and Sales & Distribution for managing costs/resources/billing for all RMA consent applications. (3 months to implement)
In both cases we took the out of the box "best practise" configurations and actively worked to avoid customisations, modifying business processes where possible.
Don't blame the technology. The issue is when organisations try to panel beat complex business systems (Finance, HR etc.) to match legacy business processes.
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Hard News: The unstable Supercity, in reply to Moz,
I just disable it on the fly, view the page and turn it back on again.
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Should also point out that Deloitte was the lead, not SAP, on the original tender response.
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And from history, my bit along with some of the other CIOs.
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The FTE count may be lower, but you need the "fire alarm" count, which is how many people leave the building in an evacuation. The consultant/contractor/temp count is quite high I understand.
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Speaker: Refugee fear-mongering must stop, in reply to Russell Brown,
When you see it up close and personal, you understand why people risk their lives for the chance to live in the west.
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If you want to see the scale of this issue across Syria and Africa (refugees and IDPs) have a look at the UNHCR portal.
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The sad thing is we have always had the ability for communities with special interests/character to set up schools and have state funding. They are called integrated schools.
The difference between integrated and charter schools? Integrated school proprietors have skin in the game as they have to fund property and, effectively, carry some fiscal risk so they can achieve their "special character".
No such risk is carried by charter school proprietors. It is a license to transfer tax payer funding into private pockets with nil financial risk.
Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.
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We all need to remember that this is still a contemporaneous issue. We have had 1000s of NZers on operations in war zones in the last decade – Timor Leste, Afghanistan etc. While we have had some with physical injuries, which are often highly visible, on the other hand, PTSD is also there – say between 5-15% rate depending on the mission (some are obviously worse than others). So there are a significant numbers of “vets”, some in their early 20s, who are psychologically disabled.