One year on!

Gosh, it's been slightly more than 1 year since I last posted anything! Anyway, nobody's reading :) Not even my dear wife!

Still, it's indeed a good way to "store away" the experiences. Interestingly, I was just sharing with my wife about the fact that I tend to "move" on around 2-3 years! And it's going to be 3 years since I joined UT Ops! For one, my counterpart in Marketing is also moving to a different role. I am even thinking about starting to think about taking a front end role! That would be a great new experience, though I will really want to finish a few things in UT Ops!

So, the great thing about UT Ops right now is that the people has been with me for at least 1 year. The officers are around 2-3 years now and that's great. A lot more things can be accomplished through the people. That was always the most important thing to me since day 1, even sometimes at my own expense!! So, it is like a critical stage where we can really start "testing" whether we can live to our "aspired" core competencies which are "execution, execution and execution" and "IT".

We want to get things done. And we want to leverage on our IT knowledge. I have a few guys who are good at projects and handling such IT stuffs. I myself am quite confident about understand the current system, which is important if we were to make changes! Our system, UTIBO, was like started from scratch and it's like we have deposited layers and layers of functionalities over them. Now, we are thinking of even changing to a new ones. Management keeps harping about having a ledger system, which is great theoretically but execution is key. Sometimes, probably one of the main problem with management is thinking that too much that IT can do anything, anytime. Maybe even to the extent of taking it for granted. Yes, everything is possible but it takes time, and more importantly, nothing gets accomplished without the people :)

That's why I am very proud of the people right now. I think we have a good team.. Well, I've always thought so. Now is truly testing time. Can we get things done fast and efficiently! Can the workload be distributed among all the people nicely!

It sure looks like that! I'm being an optimist for once ;)