{"id":270,"date":"2015-11-21T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=270"},"modified":"2015-11-20T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:13:01","slug":"how-does-modelling-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"How does modelling start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say we want to install a software system to help a company be better at helping experts to continually improve.<\/p>\n<p>Where would it start?<\/p>\n<p>Firstly define what specifically it wants to improve &#8211; for example more reliable water supply, less CO2 emissions, less accidents, less non productive time.<\/p>\n<p>Next come up with some key performance indicators which will give an indication of whether things are going in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>For example for maintaining a water supply in Mumbai, where there are regular water outages. Is the problem leaks, lack of pressure, not enough water being supplied in the first place? I don&#8217;t know but a local expert would.<\/p>\n<p>An expert might tell you whether a useful key indicator is the amount of water supplied to the grid (vs consumption), the number of blockages, the number of leaks, problems from lack of pressure (needs pumps).<\/p>\n<p>If the problem is water supplied to the grid, then you could set a project to reduce consumption and increase supply, and write down factors which show you&#8217;re going in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>My point is that this is a question only an expert can answer. Once the expert has answered this question, then the software people can start building a system (working together with experts) &#8211; and then iterate until they get it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say we want to install a software system to help a company be better at helping experts to continually improve. Where would it start? Firstly define what specifically it wants to improve &#8211; for example more reliable water supply, less CO2 emissions, less accidents, less non productive time. Next come up with some key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}