[quote bearishgurl]Why don’t you apply for work with your favorite agency and find out, uco? Or better yet, get yourself “hired on” as a “consultant” to the SD Superior Court and set them up on a reliable electronic multi-agency reporting system! I’m sure since the wheel has not been invented yet, they would embrace the ideas of a genius like you who likely has the contacts and rights to get them up properly for the 21st century :=P[/quote]Cute.. actually, I am trying to push the ‘modernization’ with respect to DoD procurement at where I am working.. And yes, I am hired as a Consultant. The whole manual invoice/payment thing is disgusting. I am also spending my efforts on another direction that is critical right now. I only have two hands, two eyes, one brain (yes two halves, but I would like to keep the together. Splitting them is not good for the corpus callosum as well keeping your sanity and single personality) and want to spend up to 10hrs/day except weekends working.. so I can only accomplish so much.
Jousting against the windmills of ignorance like Don Quixote can be interesting but ends up being frustrating in the end. If there is a way I can push/demonstrate modernization of the court without spending 2 or 3 years to get through the politics, I would! Right now, I don’t see any desire on their part to change. There has to be a ‘mind-shift’ in methodologies. Too often, computerization has only meant using computers to generate the paperwork that was once done by hand, and not automation. The end result is even more paperwork. Xerox was afraid of the electronic word processing systems the invented at PARC Place(Palo Alto Research Center) {and Email, Ethernet, GUIs and the mouse}. They felt that these systems would kill their income because of the potential to automate. They shouldn’t have worried. People used them to generate event larger reams of paper while preserving the same methodology they have always used.
