Comments on: Put the Science into Sourcing http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2008/02/07/put-the-science-into-sourcing/ The source of information and best practices in strategic sourcing. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:42:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Eric Strovink http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2008/02/07/put-the-science-into-sourcing/#comment-11177 Eric Strovink Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:16:51 +0000 http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2008/02/07/put-the-science-into-sourcing/#comment-11177 Real time alerts look impressive in a demo-ware demonstration, but deep analysis doesn't happen at the dashboard level, and it doesn't happen in real time. Payments and invoices are asymmetric in time; contract violations don't occur in big chunks that are caught by thresholding; and so on. It's software vendor mythology that you can set up any sort of reasonable filter for anything but the most obvious misbehavior. Even network management companies -- operating in a very constrained domain in which you might imagine it's easy to detect things in real time -- are notoriously bad at generating useful real time alerts. the doctor is apoplectic on this point, and for good reason. Real time alerts look impressive in a demo-ware demonstration, but deep analysis doesn’t happen at the dashboard level, and it doesn’t happen in real time. Payments and invoices are asymmetric in time; contract violations don’t occur in big chunks that are caught by thresholding; and so on. It’s software vendor mythology that you can set up any sort of reasonable filter for anything but the most obvious misbehavior. Even network management companies — operating in a very constrained domain in which you might imagine it’s easy to detect things in real time — are notoriously bad at generating useful real time alerts.

the doctor is apoplectic on this point, and for good reason.

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