I am an ex-team leader of an Fortune 500 company as well.
Basically, the message I got from the "god" of our IT is:
1. number of tickets is proportional to productivity (together with other KPIs (Key Peroformance Index, e.g. number of machines per support staff, etc.), and
2. number of tickets is inversely proportional to support staff performance as they are not doing good job in keeping systems in good shape. (don't tell him you need extra budget to upgrade, current business situation do not allow extra budget!)
I cannot either please my boss or my team, hence I am no more...
Nobody seems really care to find out what is this new material. Hope someone knowledgable can give us some insight with the following information.
I did a Google search on Australian Photonics research. Got this URL: http://www.photonics.crc.org.au/whts_new/wht s_new. htm
found this publication: http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstrac t.cfm?URI=OPEX -9-7-319
It has a link to the full text. And here is the abstract:
Microstructured polymer optical fibre Martijn van Eijkelenborg, Maryanne Large, Alexander Argyros, Joseph Zagari, Steven Manos, Nader A. Issa, Ian M. Bassett, Simon C. Fleming, Ross C. McPhedran, C. Martijn de Sterke, and Nicolae A. P. Nicorovici, Univ. of Sydney
Abstract The first microstructured polymer optical fibre is described. Both experimental and theoretical evidence is presented to establish that the fibre is effectively single moded at optical wavelengths. Polymer-based microstructured optical fibres offer key advantages over both conventional polymer optical fibres and glass microstructured fibres. The low-cost manufacturability and the chemical flexibility of the polymers provide great potential for applications in data communication networks and for the development of a range of new polymer-based fibre-optic components.
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I am an ex-team leader of an Fortune 500 company as well. Basically, the message I got from the "god" of our IT is: 1. number of tickets is proportional to productivity (together with other KPIs (Key Peroformance Index, e.g. number of machines per support staff, etc.), and 2. number of tickets is inversely proportional to support staff performance as they are not doing good job in keeping systems in good shape. (don't tell him you need extra budget to upgrade, current business situation do not allow extra budget!) I cannot either please my boss or my team, hence I am no more...
Nobody seems really care to find out what is this new material. Hope someone knowledgable can give us some insight with the following information.
t s_new. htm
c t.cfm?URI=OPEX -9-7-319
I did a Google search on Australian Photonics research. Got this URL:
http://www.photonics.crc.org.au/whts_new/wh
found this publication:
http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstra
It has a link to the full text. And here is the abstract:
Microstructured polymer optical fibre
Martijn van Eijkelenborg, Maryanne Large, Alexander Argyros, Joseph Zagari, Steven Manos, Nader A. Issa, Ian M. Bassett, Simon C. Fleming, Ross C. McPhedran, C. Martijn de Sterke, and Nicolae A. P. Nicorovici, Univ. of Sydney
Abstract
The first microstructured polymer optical fibre is described. Both experimental and theoretical evidence is presented to establish that the fibre is effectively single moded at optical wavelengths. Polymer-based microstructured optical fibres offer key advantages over both conventional polymer optical fibres and glass microstructured fibres. The low-cost manufacturability and the chemical flexibility of the polymers provide great potential for applications in data communication networks and for the development of a range of new polymer-based fibre-optic components.