How can you get young people interested in working in the VA on VistA using M if you do nothing but tell everyone that you are dumping it and you treat the IT folks working on M like they are a fifth wheel and tell them that if they retrain into another field, they might keep their jobs? Where is the fun in a job like that? They will go work for Epic, or Partners, or Daou or IDX, or Perot or whatever, not the VA.
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:05 am, steven mcphelan wrote: > RE: [Hardhats-members] MDC RevivalI believe Cameron's statement about the > VA management not being able to back off of migrating to a newer platform > is probably very close to the truth. However, I am sure that there were > some real business management decisions made (or at least I hope so). I > saw an article recently that estimated that 40-50% of the current VA IT > staff will be retiring in the next 5 years. If I was a manager of VA IT I > would be very concerned about that. I would seriously consider moving my > technology to a platform that enables me to recruit competent IT staff > without having to rely on in-house training for the next generation of VA > IT support. I would even consider technology that is inferior to my > current technology as long as the new technology meets my needs and gives > me greater flexibilty in personnel matters or provide me the opportunity to > competitively outsource some IT functions. -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
