Oooh. Work!

Yes, Our first piece of work. Time to get started. Should have started earlier but, better late than never.

Yes this is a very badly back dated post but the main jist of the idea is to compile a list of security companies from resources such as E-guide, Yellow Pages, blah blah blah. Here I'll draw you a flow chart of the plan. Tell me if you like it. XD

Its a little crude and unfinished plan at the moment but its a plan none the less. Cheers to progress. Or as Calvin and Hobbes would say it, "Scientific Progress goes "Boink!"

Why a Security Catalog?

So basically why would anyone bother with a catalog? All we need to do is head to your online Yellow-pages or E-guide or something along those lines. All you get is contact info and maybe their location. That's about it. As an event organizer/planner, you're not going to waste time calling up the 150+ companies just to ask if they do event security or to e-mail all of them for a quotation.

So your next likely step as an event organizer would be GeBiz, Put up a Tender for your event and wait to see what kind of response you get. But as an event organizer, how do you assess the quality of the people who have responded and their expertise? Aside from what they give you, not much else. Not all the agencies will respond, this could include some of the better agencies.
They might have sufficient contacts that they do not actively seek out business, they could wait for business to come to them...

The other path they could take is by re-hiring a previous security agency they've worked with before. Doesn't really ensure much though. The company could be less than optimal for them but who else can they turn to?

So as an event organizer, we could potentially be left with a bunch of agencies that don't exactly meet your needs... Plausible enough, i say...

What if these event organizers suddenly had a resource they could search through? Read up about some companies that could meet their needs? The catalog could include things like past events, costs, company profile and their areas of expertise.
Suppose they required bodyguards for their VIP? They can filter the list down to which companies do VIP bodyguarding/escorting, read up a little and have a better idea of what they want? Then e-mail these companies for a quotation?

Security agencies and my socks.

Yes thats going to be the theme of this FYP. Socks. White, black, rainbow, ankle, high, everything. Socks.

So where do we begin. Just like in class with our Problem Definition Template.

What we know:

• Its not going to be easy to get any first hand information.
• Second hand information is normally sub-par. I mean seriously. How much do people really care about security when it comes to events? When nothing happens, no one takes notice. This is singapore, nothing happens.
• We have a hell of a job. Cataloging security agencies?! Its going to take a bit of work. While it should be reasonably easy to find the agencies, not all of them are going to do events security. I think i'm going to create a fake e-mail account and start asking them what they do.

What we don't know

• How to get more information aside from procudures? - My worry is that we're going to end up with a lot of less than helpful things SOPs and day to day job scope. We're going to have to be extra careful about coming up with the questions. If they even reply that is.
• How to get useful secondary information?- Your average person attending an event is at best unaware or at the worst completely ignorant(OMG am i gonna be sued?!), In regards to event security. They don't really have a lot to share because they don't take much notice in the first place. Don't believe me? Go and ask anyone who's been to any event, ask a simple question like "Were there any security guards? What company were they from?" If you get a good answer, send in your resume. I want you in my FYP team.

Have i logged enough yet? Wanna read more. I hear you, and the answer is, NO. Wait till next time.

Wee met in the Library

The whole thing was blah. Which leads to another thing this whole blog idea, its messing up with my english(its to do with the whole dynamics of blogging), but thats for another update.


So lets just get to it. We met wee leong in the library to discuss our proposal that we had worked so hard on, on sunday. Apparently our proposal didn't go through so in the end we ended up with some thing about cataloging security agencies. (Ack.)

1, there are few event security agencies. 2, how do we get good info?

My main concern is obtaining useful information. Since first hand information is unlikely, we're going to have to depend on other people like event organizers and event attendees(we all know how "helpful" those are). Its going to be very likely that event attendees don't give a flying cow about event security unless its some high-up event and the attendees are ministers or CEOs.

If it ends up the way it did last time, we might just get screwed.

Original Idea

This is Was our original idea for our FYP topic before it was rejected based on some forced and artificial catergorization of security in Singapore.


Uh, Man works hand in hand with Machine. Its been that way for the past 9000 years. Since we've developed tools to help us, its been that way. When you put man against machine, both lose. No machine, man is handicapped. No man, machine is handicapped or completely disabled. Security is all encompassing, whatever aids in the detection and handling of threats is security, be it the man or the machine, ideally and realistically, thats how it works. Never mind, time to think of a new topic to propose.

Starbucks & Burger King = meeting

Had BK and SB. It was a good meal before we got started on our work. Got the proposal down but it got rejected in the end. Gah... Its going to be my new key-phrase. Gah...

I think we need to work on being more focused. Not that chatting and all isn't fun but it would be nice to finish the work faster. Especially as the deadline closes.

Cheers.

Gah...

Ok so Its finally up. What a way to do a log book.
I'll get posting when i have the time, by have the time i mean never.