Message-ID: <199609211146.GAA08910@anditel.andinet.lat.net> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 21:03:21 -0500 From: Reinaldo Vicini <mailto:interext@ANDITEL.ANDINET.LAT.NET> Subject: ISDP: How to waste your scarce money. To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Dear friendsI did run a very interesting project regarding IS for Development Planning for Government Planning Agencies some years ago and I discovered that the amount of money lost in such matters I would call it INFAMOUS.
Furthermore, I discovered that, regarding IS Applications, I found out that the grandiose schemes didn't work and planners were happy with very punctual and small solutions.
Among the projects that took most of our resources were:
- Public Project Data Banks - National, Regional, State and local levels - Public Projects Monitoring
Large amounts of money were spent, very important resources were allocated, only to find that a great divorce among development planners and executive level officials cause all efforts to fail. Of course, the knowledge base of the members of the planners' team increased, but at what cost?.
How much data is relevant to plan?.. Furthermore, what new data is required? I certainly found the solution quite simpler than all those big plans. Unfortunely it's so easy, that is difficult to believe. A referencing system. Where is the available data and where. No expense is generating new kind of sophisticated data
As a IS professional, specially after working on ISDP, the most expensive phrases I have heard are "An optimal flow of information" and "we need special field data".
Reinaldo Vicini mailto:interext@anditel.andinet.lat.net http://www.colomsat.net.co/rotarios.bogota
Yo no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido _____________________________________________
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