11.8 - Vision for the Future 

BRANDON’S POST-IT NOTES

-Some of these are terms and some are concepts:

-Debits & Credits, Chart of Accounts, T-Accounts, journals, ledgers, reconciliation, posting, adjustments, batching, Carts/Horses

-Time, gaps, batching, delayed reporting, super detailed (searching for pennies) - but plugging huge numbers, adjustments, power and control, process of discovery, changing names, user report requests, hand written tickets, separate systems, double and triple manual entry, shipping and batching, different locations and departments, cycle time, centralized location for the data, real time connections from the source, enter once - use many, empower the users at the point of action, catching the details on the operations side, communications, problems (stress and load), specific dates, data and totals, minimal cross over, the commonality becomes the system, make the system the bad guy, open and close virtual doors, permissions, real time problems and solutions, operations feeding accounting, seeing both sides, cause and effect cycles, next logical steps, maintenance and upkeep, one to many relationships, cogs of a zipper, the gap, taking data from day to day tasks and having them show up for roll call or the accounting side, tracking life cycles, tracking every penny from start to end, water droplets forming into ice crystals, key dates and status changes are flagged, permissions locks, objects and data over time, the forming need, providing feedback and ideas, find a hole or problem and try to fix it, community effort, training, opening doors and options, changes over time, legacy changes and dealing with old code and legacy code, advancing needs, advancing technology, unfolding needs, learn as you go, can’t stop operations and make changes and then say go, expanding user requests, details and histories, drunk on data,

-WORKING

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