[Sigia-l] What makes an IA good at what he or she does?

[Arthur Fink]

At 03:18 PM 2/13/2004, Listera wrote:

>Yes, but this too could be refactored further, even to the point of
>eliminating the entire screen altogether. There are amazing tools that
>reduce screens of data points to a single distilled number in medical
>diagnosis, risk management, asset allocation, credit card fraud, security
>assessment, etc. It all depends on how far down you want to dig and whether
>it makes economic sense to do so. In other words, somebody's outside box
>could be inside someone else's. It's a matter of perspective.

When the collector is calling the debtor, it's certainly important that 
basic information about the debts being collected be on the screen.  What 
was in question was all the historical data ... past debts, past promises 
to pay, performance on those promises.  I belive that these can be reduced 
to one or a few indices -- perhaps a performance rating indicating how 
agreements were kept, and a confidence rating, indicating how many 
experience there have been, and a repayment total.

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