Subject: <[log in to unmask]> Re: Computerworld / Computerw
 
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>> Bruce Toback wrote:
>> (snip)
>> >Ah, then what you want is a Unix or PC solution. The standards are
>> >changing, and us dinosaurs (over-25s) had better change with them. Today
>> >"good enough" IS good enough. People expect to lose some data now and
>> >then; hasn't "sorry, my computer's down" become as accepted an excuse as
>> >"sorry, my car wouldn't start"? Read the newspaper "computer advice"
>> >columns, or go to an "Internet" class. Having the right answer 90% of th
>> >time is perfectly acceptable; we pocket-protectored techies are just
>> >being stuffy when we insist that computers and people give right answers
>> >
>> (snip)
>> Do you ever work with payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable systms?
>> (This is not a loaded question. Just immensely curious.)
>> (Oh, if I took your comments seriously, and you meant otherwise, please ecuse
>>
>> Jim Hurst
>>
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>While I expect Bruce is joking, the question is indeed serious.
>
>So what if we don't pay a bill for a while, or lose an invoice? - they'll
>send another, we might have to pay a penalty, but it costs money to have
>excellence (perhaps more than the penalty). So what if you pay somebody too
>much, fix it in the next payroll - just apologize to the employee and go on
>with business.
>
>Please note, I'm *not* speaking of any attitude here at Xavier, just one
>I've heard from time to time, here and there. I'm serious about this, too.
>Does excellence really cost too much (more than the risk)? How do we know
>when it does and when it won't?
>
>Richard Gambrell
 
Actually, all of us do this all the time in our business and
personal lives.
 
We are ALWAYS analyzing the tradeoffs, the cost justifications,
the time constraints, the risks, the value benefit issues, etc..
Many times the COST OF EXCELLENCE (i.e. PERFECTION??) is not
affordable (or perhaps obtainable??).
 
 
Elbert