The empty calendar did not mean available

In 2018 I supported a resource calendar that treated forty colleagues with thirty scheduled hours each as 1,200 hours available for campaign work. Daniel’s review identified 240 hours of approved leave and training within that total. The resulting 960 hours were only potential capacity before assignment and skill fit, yet the proposed allocation was 1,120. We held the excess 160 planned hours and spent ₹32 lakh over nine weeks correcting the system account. I had allowed an apparently empty calendar to stand for availability the business had not actually established.

I now lead information systems at Veqzorn Campaign Services in Guwahati. The 232-person enterprise recorded ₹112 crore FY2025–26 revenue across commissioned campaign production and account services. Twenty-six technology colleagues work through three heads within ₹5.1 crore annual operating expense and a separate ₹2.4 crore change programme. Lalita is our CEO, and Daniel owns operating delivery. My team carries their decisions through systems; it does not acquire staffing, client-permission or contractual authority because it can implement a convenient default.

Later reviews examined a client-workspace inheritance rule and an archive process that treated a completed project as automatically ready for removal. Twelve of forty reviewed folders had permissions broader than the accountable owner intended; ten were corrected and two remained held for clarification. Fifteen of sixty archive projects had unresolved contractual questions and were excluded from the proposed action. Neither case asserts an actual disclosure or a legal retention conclusion. I hold no statutory directorship or personal equity. A possible outside contribution would require further governance preparation, a specific interests assessment and a realistic twenty-three-day annual proposal. I want the enterprise to see the missing decision before a system quietly converts it into an instruction.

Current focus

Business systems that preserve the authority behind their defaults

Conversations I welcome

Information leadership and a prepared first outside-board contribution