Tuesday, July 25, 2006
review of CDC
i still remember when i first in CDC, there was nothing planned for me. the first week, i spend it reading manifesto by political parties. doing research of election mainly and i am surprised how statistical findings which i had collected is so close to election. 2 days b4 the election, i have evidence that WP is on 52-48 majority. PAP did a final swoon on the final day, utilising mass manpower to distribute pamphlets to all household in aljunied. and one day before, my rating is at 52-48 in favour of PAP. actual election result: 55-45. i was telling many people that aljunied will be a hard fight but no one believed it until they see the result.
but after 3 months in the project team,i have learnt a few things about projects. there are a few way to look at a project. you can divide it into 4 chronological phase...idealising, conceptualising, planning and executing or you can ask the same few question (who, what, where, why, when, how?). Idealising is actually really easy, its just plain talking non stop, rattling of idea, something like brainstorming. conceptualising gets abit harder as it requires putting brain wave down into word and to subject it to approval and writing the program up. planning is to meet up with partners and to anticipate and detail what is going to happen on the day. executing is to run the event out smoothly. in my opinion, there is only so much u can do b4 the actual event, as being a audience orientated event, there is huge variance in all our activities which limit planning but hinges more on playing by ears. unless of course CDC isn't doing resident orientated event but other event which is geared towards guests like guest of honour and preparing a display show for them. So assuming that it is an resident orientated event, minimal planning is required, maximum playing by ear is needed as everything is real time on the event itself, with so many things going on concurrently, it takes alot to be handle it. here's the 2nd irony, the highest people are the cock talker, the one who idealise. the people who get credit are the people who plan and conceptualise. people who execute? they are the nobody despite being the most important, and that is the whole problem with CDC, with government service and even PAP. a huge disconnect between top level management and people. I have enough of seeing GOH, MPs coming for event and walking away mingling with CDC staff, cos we sheltered them from public. I mean... oh dear, why do that? MPs are voted into parliament by singaporean, now we segregate them from the very people who vote them in. like that how to know how singaporean feel? i mean, granted, there are meet people session, but these session invite extreme cases, some of them quite weird.
The next aspect, has CDC done its role over the past 9 year to achieve community bonding after the amount of money it has spent? my answer is no. my hypothesis tells me is the efficiency ratio is not high and i am developing a model to verify the truth of it. so much red tape, so slow decision making. safe guard? wat do you all mean safe guard? safeguarding public fund? or safe guarding your job? decision making is really inefficient, so much of bouncing here and there, asking this person that, checking with this person that. so much so that instead of wasted fund on wrong decision, funds are wasted due to loss of manpower time and over staffing the place (many people complained not enough, i realise its overstaff, cos many of them of doing duplicate work load). Such an environment is actually degenerating to work for and as such civil service always have a problem with attracting talent.
Time is running out, the party that has lead singapore for 40 years is on the verge of collapse. Temasek holding maybe strong. but the next 40 year, family business account for nothing. party loyalty is decreasing in importance. renewal is a necessities for survival, but they have to make the right renewal instead of rewarding posers who have aspiration but no heart.
posted @ 11:06 PM ||
