On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 13:35, htshozawa <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you implying that ROI calculation is unnecessary because there may be > some other benefit gained?
I think ROI in general is a word made up by consultants to enable them to justify selling their services to potential clients, but I wouldn't jut imply such a thing, I'd state out quite loud and clear that ROI calculations quite often is missing the point, barking up the wrong tree, bereft of insight and blindingly stupid in their consequences. Sure, hang on; I have seen good ones too, although they tend to be more like summaries, pointers and strategies from some real talented people rather than intricate, complex and specific "we got some insight for you to marvel at" that's often drawn up. Everybody is BSing to some degree, be it consultant, internal or external person. Someone is writing these reports with acclaimed insights that often do not hold water when scrutinized (but who's gonna do that when it all *sounds* so good and clever and is backed with good-looking graphs!). And all this with the disclaimer that I used to be a consultant and was longing to get out of it often due to the BS in enterprise business that pass as muster these days. Just like the term "SOA" has been shafted into the ground by some of these companies, so has the phrases "ROI" and "TTM"; it's the business of speaking like a business for the sake of that business, rather than just focusing on *why* you're in that business and how you should move on. (Heh, you can tell I'm a practitioner rather than a talker, right? :) Ahem. Just ignore this silly rant. It's been a long day of reading through a lot of enterprisey systems documentation that speak of "reducing cost at the vendor level and increasing amptitude for first-in-line support resources through the use of middle-ware enabled third-party plugin architecture using the projected SOA initiative" which has got so many factors and unknowns and silly words and idiotic pipe-dream upholstery in it that it just makes my brain melt to think people can think it must be true. Where's my Martini(s!) when I need it? :) Alex -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps ------------------------------------------ http://shelter.nu/blog/ --------
