What are you doing at work now?

[DOD]Asprilla;12893908 said:
Actually this morning I'm trying to come up with a benefit model that will justify a £350,000 investment in a Federated Search system. No chance.

I also need to produce a CBA looking at the differences between an integrated European IPT / Unified Messaging Programme versus an ad-hoc approach involving upgrading London and allowing the other European offices to move at their own speed until critical mass is achieved.

It's not all sex, drugs and rock n' roll in the life of a Business Analyst.
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good luck, two words

Credit Crunch :)
 
Waiting for students to arrive in the labs from their first lecture of the day to see how many thousands of pages they want to print off this morning.
 
It looks like I'm doing lots...

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...but I'm actually just browsing OcUK. :D
 
mangobreeder said:
Credit Crunch :)
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The IPT one will go though, the benefits model is sound and the difference between the two option is only the cost of the Call Manager licences. Besides, we are shopping for voicemail spares on eBay at the moment.

The Federated Search one is a toughy; £350,000 sounds a lot of money for what it is but it's only £81 per user in the first year and £15 in every supsequent year. I've also got the vendor to agree to a three month pilot for £30,000. If the partners like that they'll bite.
 
Sixth Form free period......

Pretending to do IT work, but it's soo pointless and noddy that I've completely lost motivation. :rolleyes:

And the *******s that run the school network have removed the unfiltered proxy server, so even my MBP gets hit by the filters :(
 
[DOD]Asprilla;12893992 said:
The IPT one will go though, the benefits model is sound and the difference between the two option is only the cost of the Call Manager licences. Besides, we are shopping for voicemail spares on eBay at the moment.

The Federated Search one is a toughy; £350,000 sounds a lot of money for what it is but it's only £81 per user in the first year and £15 in every supsequent year. I've also got the vendor to agree to a three month pilot for £30,000. If the partners like that they'll bite.
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350k is not a huge amount depending on the savings you wil make.

I think a lot of places are like that now, although the CC hasnt hit us yet, i can feel we are already tightening our belts, and we are a large investmetn bank.

e.g the **** has hit the fan because we have to front 250k in tax reclaims to a client, and we will get the money back from the sub in a month. but no one wants it on their suspense account. Me included
 
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I am online doing nothing work related because today is my last day. Will spend the afternoon updating my CV :]
 
mangobreeder said:
350k is not a huge amount depending on the savings you wil make.
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That's the problem, there are little or no tangible benefits and none I can prove without going though a full six sigma analysis phase. I can't see that happening with lawyers though; if they aren't billing for it then they aren't interested in doing it.

The only thing it will do is make their lives a little easier.

We've not scaled back investment, lawyers make more money when times are hard, boom and bust is what they want it's flat spots and uncertainty when they suffer. The problem is that half our project budget is being eaten by large infrastructure programmes and there is no additional investment to cover this.

I guess on your side, no one wants a crap month on their ledger, even if the £250k can be explained legitimately, people only read the headlines. My briefs and CBAs are usually around 100 pages, but the only bit that counts is the two page summary because that's what most people read. If you can't sell the investment in there then you won't sell it at all.
 
Modelling a fund of hedge funds portfolio in a trade planning and execution system.

Then having fun seeing how well it performs if the current bear market continues.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;12894183 said:
That's the problem, there are little or no tangible benefits and none I can prove without going though a full six sigma analysis phase. I can't see that happening with lawyers though; if they aren't billing for it then they aren't interested in doing it.

The only thing it will do is make their lives a little easier.

We've not scaled back investment, lawyers make more money when times are hard, boom and bust is what they want it's flat spots and uncertainty when they suffer. The problem is that half our project budget is being eaten by large infrastructure programmes and there is no additional investment to cover this.

I guess on your side, no one wants a crap month on their ledger, even if the £250k can be explained legitimately, people only read the headlines. My briefs and CBAs are usually around 100 pages, but the only bit that counts is the two page summary because that's what most people read. If you can't sell the investment in there then you won't sell it at all.
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Thing is only people who know 6 Sigma. Understand 6 Sigma. I tend to only use certain tools form it to explain things easily.

people love cetainy, i love nothing more than a graph which is flat, up or down. anything else, means you ahve no control over your process :)
 
I'm not at work, because I'm jobless.

but I'm drinking tea like every other bugger!


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Setting up the new animation facial control system for the characters in the game I'm working on

Jobs please?

It is my job....
 
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