Re: help -- BPCS-L

I would like to think that, as a consultant, I can ask for help with areas
of BPCS that I am unsure of but, in turn, would then be able to offer
expertise in areas I do know a little about.

We all have a choice as to whether we reply to requests for 'help' on the
BPCS list.  It really is a personal thing but I think it should also work
both ways!

Sally

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Sally Bosman
Director - Small Blue Ltd
Tel:   +44 1737 824246
Fax:  +44 1737 824247
Mob: +44 7767 447107
www.smallblue.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: <rfolsom@xxxxxxxx>
To: "SSA's BPCS ERP System" <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: help


>
> I have to toss in my two cents here, and please don't misconstrue my
> remarks as anything against a particular country, group, race, religion or
> ethnicity.  A recent article by Joe Pluta (Where Have All the IT Jobs
> Gone?) in MC Mag Online, November 24, addressed what appears to be going
on
> here.  If you check out Linc Software, they are an Indian consulting firm.
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I see it as Linc getting an outsourcing contract
and
> then trying to find someone to do the work.  They didn't have anyone with
> experience, so you get a "functional analyst" attempting to use this list
> and the vast experience of its users (some who have probably been
> "downsized" by the same companies who are outsourcing) to do their job for
> them.  That's why I didn't try to respond to the initial question, and why
> I won't in the future, if it appears to be a case of jobs being turned
over
> to outsourcing firms.
> Rick Folsom
>
>
>
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>                     12/05/03 08:35 AM
>                     Please respond to
>                     "SSA's BPCS ERP
>                     System"
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>
>
>
> My comment was not directed to you.  The original poster claimed to be a
> BPCS
> functional Consultant, and that is where my reply was directed.  As I am
> also
> a consultant and if he was being paid to consult, then I was going to ask
> for
> a percentage of what he is already charging his client to provide him with
> the answers he needed to do the job he claimed he could provid when he
took
> the
> job.  I have no problem providing information for users, and have in the
> past,
> but it kind of irks me to see a "CONSULTANT" charge people for his work as
> an
> expert and come to a free board for assistance.  It seems to me the
> "CONSULTANT" should have his own list of contacts/resources to provide his
> client the
> best possible service for the dollars that client is spending with that
> "CONSULTANT".
>
> I apologize for any difficulties I may have cause and I hope this clears
up
>
> any possible misunderstandings that may have arisen from my query.
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