Final Presentation to GEP

Our group did a final presentation, it was well put together and I was happy.  I presented the final results on 10 quarters of data and I demonstrated what data they had and what was lacking.  It was eye opening and it took many nights of combing through spreadsheets.

Left to Right at 7th Floor GEP office:  Jamon, Yolande (BDS), Thulani (Project Sponsor), Martin, Thenjiwe (Marketing), Brian (Early Project Sponsor), Jalpa, Li Hua, Cordelia (Information Officer)

  Missing was Jolinda (True Sponsor) , Fikele (BDS Leader), Obed (Consolidation whom I trained), Cindy (Admin), Natalabesing (Admin), Doll (Information Officer), Mashapa (ICT or IT), Richardo (Investments) and Stanley (Post Investments).

The dynamic of the meeting got animated over the financial findings.,  They had not seen it before as the data was unstructured.  I checked my findings and it helped articulate a stary about where they were serving small business and areas to improve.  Then the conversation evolved into why one region was given more funds then others.  People had conversations on the data and we went from there.
People saw the need for consolidated data, and it was exciting to kind of point it out and demonstrated what can be seen and show them evidence of performance.

The team I was a part of showed other parts such as an org chart and also other measures to help the group see their impact.
At the end they applauded a vision statement.
Overall the audience was polite and not antsy.
I look at what our team provided, a framework to measure, an org chart set with open source software to update, existing measurements of today to help, excel training.  I think it was productive and good, and I saw the value of the pro bono work.
I think if we had one more week, we could have done more, but for what we provided, I am happy.

 To conclude the project I jumped in the pool, this goes back to the Clark tradition that when your chores are done, you can go swimming...we were done.