My company has done custom programming for 25 years. For most of those years I have been trying to develop ways to communicate the benefits of our services.
My initial efforts were very simple: determine the time saved per week then calculate the total time and money saved over a 5 years.
But I have come to realize that things are not that simple. For example, saving an hour a day works fine if the hour is one contiguous hour. However, saving an hour of thirty 2 minute interruptions s at a time over the course of a day can be much more than a one hour’s savings. This example means 30 interruptions a day. The more concentration
required for a job, the greater the impact. In the programming field, it can take several minutes to "get back to where we started" when interrupted. This is not unlike being interrupted while taking a Calculus exam.
I am trying to develop a really comprehensive way to present the benefits of our services and any suggestions are welcome.
2006-10-28
08:22:07
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Wes W
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In the first example (contiguous hour), the program we wrote compiled information into a report in a few seconds and presented it in a fully formatted Excel spreadsheet. In the second, we wrote a program to automatically email customers with status reports eliminating the need go into Outlook to send the status reports.
2006-10-28
08:45:48 ·
update #1