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What do you call it when the government pays for tens of thousands of annual licenses for software and only a few hundred are ever activated?
by transcriptase 1y ago
What do you call it when the government pays for tens of thousands of annual licenses for software and only a few hundred are ever activated?
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoOh oh I know this one! A rounding error!
- transcriptase 1y agoClose! A drop in the bucket! Which is why it’s important the bucket is always getting larger, that way everything is a drop and no single thing is worth making more efficient!
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoThere are lots of single things worth making more efficient. This isn't one of them. This isn't even remotely close to the top decile of the list. This is probably in the last 5% of things you'd want to fix. It's not principled to solve problems in stupid ways, it's actually just stupid. Here's where someone who has thought about the problem for more than 5 seconds would likely start: gigantic healthcare organizations defrauding Medicare, in particular vertically integrated pay-viders. Literally tens of billions of dollars per year in known, easily detectable fraud.
- transcriptase 1y agoSort your list by dollars saved divided by human-hours required to achieve, and add a column with likelihood of success after 2 years.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoYeah, "software subscriptions" is nowhere near the top. You lack a sense of scale.
- transcriptase 1y agoRight. A couple hours to instantly save millions by looking at active vs purchased licences is barely worth the effort. Exactly what is the threshold where people with your perspective won’t handwave away explicit irrefutable waste and say “oh that? who cares it’s nothing”?
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoThere isn't a threshold, there's a stack ranking.