Returns for Your Endowment Using IT
Kicking it up a notch, are the staff who are making investment decisions able to perform scenario and sensitivity analysis with ease? Or do they find themselves in a situation where every time they need to conduct analysis they have to run to someone who can do 'programming'. Some off the shelf products do a reasonable job of this. However, is this process, and more importantly the variables, fine-tuned to your need? And now for arguably the most important question, is your current process delivering the flexibility and outcomes that you were expecting? If your answer is 'No', Technology can clearly bridge that gap. Now let us examine the conundrum of throughput and productivity. How many managers are your analysts able to screen in a given week? 5? 10? 50? What if it were possible to screen 5000 managers a week? In addition to that what if the data for these managers were modelled out such that they followed the same process as your analysts follow? The beauty of this...