2016 Q4 ISSUE COSTTREE CAPTURE. 15
WALL OF WIRES
Include a reconciliation schedule to describe all incoming revenues and costs applied to the expenditures. This will streamline your audit.
Include thorough reconciliation of revenues and adjustments to CSD expenditures
Don’t use negative allocation units
Never include a negative allocation; this skews the bases, and it does not make sense to allocate a “negative” service. Make negative allocations zero.
how we did almost anything. No two companies were talking to each other to see how the systems could talk to each other. The goal was to remain a silo and hope that no other company stole their idea. In order for us to move to the next phase of technology and break the wall down, it is now the responsibility of the technology companies to start collaborating and to start creating ecosystems. With technology today, it is possible to build tunnels to connect one system to another and create a way for users to access the information on one system from another.
In the nineties, it was the individual’s job to move technology to the next level, because they actually had to learn it and use it. Technology was really only limited by the users. It was necessary for people to change their ways and be open to learning new ways of doing things through technology. I think we can all say, as a majority in society, that we have done that. But now that everyone is on board, we all have our smartphones, emails, applications, etc. Technology is everywhere. Now it is in the hands of the tech companies to move technology to the next level.
The only way we will move to the next level of technology is to connect the wires and allow the data to flow from one to the next. This not only brings the information together, it brings the people in the agencies together. The more one person can understand the information of the next person the better the product and the less duplication that is necessary. This will leave us more time to do what we set out to do in the first place—improve the quality and quantity and reduce our workload, which will better serve our communities, which, let’s be honest, is what we set out to do in the first place.
So, all technology companies out there, let’s get talking, let’s get connected, and let’s move technology to the next level that truly accomplishes the goals we originally set out to achieve: 1) to increase the quality and quantity of our output and 2) to decrease the amount of our workload, and we can do that through the use of ecosystems.