I lay no claim to being a financial or accounting genius, or anything of the sort. I work in a different field. However, I am intimately familiar with the concept of running a paralell system until such time when it is ‘all clear’ to cut over to a new one.
How then can running a paralell system be a recipe for disaster? I find it difficult to believe that Senator Fields cannot appreciate the benefits of running a new system in paralell with an old one before fully switching over. But then again, there it is in the Nation’s article.
Maybe he’s trying to say that the machinery that is our Government, is so overly-complex and so magical, that it would be a step backwards to run in paraell? Maybe they’ve got it so right that they don’t need to waste time, resources and effort. Maybe.
But just to be sure, Is this not the same Allan Fields who, according to the BS&T website, is the Chairman of one of the island’s largest group of private sector companies and who also studied as a Mechanical Engineer?
That sort of person doesn’t strike me as the sort who would go without running a system in parallel before making the switch. Furthermore, wouldn’t someone in his position in the private sector demand and expect that his Finance Department run a new system in paralell with the old one until it is safe to switch over? I would’ve thought so.
Maybe this isn’t the same Allan Fields. Maybe it’s his evil twin or something.
4 Comments
March 18, 2007 at 9:51 pm
a helpful comment is a good start but doesn’t yet constitute something worthy of a link. Let him earn his stripes by the quality of his input to a better and more accountable Barbados ( apologies to the author if she is a women ).
At the same time you may want to consider delisting the DLP and BLP blog as they appear to be a lot more hot air than substance.
March 19, 2007 at 1:28 am
Nice banner pic.
March 19, 2007 at 4:52 pm
parallel
March 20, 2007 at 2:11 am
Thanks everyone for your comments so far.