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IBM: Customer visit costing £75 in travel? Kill it with extreme prejudice

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Re: Exemptions

>> Doesn't "Business Control Personnel" equal all managers and above? Maybe VP and above.

Business ControlS Personel - subtle difference. In IBM-speak refers to those looking into contract performance (or, at least equally frequently non-performance) - which includes complying with IBM's internal rules - and Internal Audit etc. By no means all managers as the functions involved needs lots of go-fers, and much of BC was compiling frequent and regular reports, checking and double checking (and then the checkers being checked again).

As I recall, the nomination of a contract team to be the subject of IA would effectively disrupt the contract's (or other unit) business operations team for months and during the auditor's visit virtually the whole extended management team would either be attending the audit or running the supporting "war room". Of course, in those days everybody (team, Auditors, Business Controls ...) converged into a single location at whatever cost it took - and deepening on the size of the department or contract it could take a week or more!

Spent best part of ten years in a team that wasn't Business Controls but doing much the same thing under the pretence of being the team's friends by performing "Project Management Reviews" as one part of the job.

Went back to a more customer focused semi-technical role when the assurance team were forced to focus on only the "Risk Management" (basically to IBM's bottom line) parts of the job and took their money and ran when VR was offered (a couple of years ago when it was still worth it).

A/C for obvious reasons.

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