The last large corporations I worked for: 1) Had a wonderful "long range plan".
Their "long range" plan was to replace their core business software with the "state of the art" in order to impress Wall St. This software was running in FoxPro Dos and FPW with some VFP. Those of us in the Fox team suggested that they allow the 11 of us to port all of the software into VFP. This would have taken us about a year with no interruption to ongoing processing. But no, they knew best so they hired a couple of hundred of folks to re-write the system in m$'s "latest and greatest" VB, C, some Java and with SQL server databases. After spending millions for over 2 years they dumped the local team, hired an Indian company, fired them, hired another Indian company then sold themselves to their major competitor. Great plan... 2) Had a wonderful "long range plan". We had created a system in VFP that satisfied their business model from initial contact through installation and marketing follow up. We only had two more small steps -- integrate from the VFP system with their 3D cad system and to feed Quick Books and would have had an end to end system that would do the job for the least financial outlay for the franchises. But, they hired some corporate IT guy. This guy decided that the solution to this relatively small franchise business' IT needs was to go with bloated, inadequate m$ megasoftware and force the franchises to buy (or lease) new servers. Along with all of this would have been a requirement to retrain the 500 folks out in the field who already knew how to work with the existing system that was CUSTOM TAILORED TO THE BUSINESS. They ended up losing MILLIONS of dollars, fired this clown early (and had to pay his huge severance) and the franchises are still working with the original system but they DON'T have the extensions I would have provided had I not been laid off in favor of m$'s crap. I have found that all to often "the leaders have a plan" and that since they are incompetent idiots whose only desire is to please the jerks on Wall St. to the detriment of their employees and customers -- they totally f*ck it up and cost many thousands of folks their jobs... They have "long range plans" and they are generally bullsh*t... It's been my experience that nearly ALL of the corporations I've worked for have followed the same path I've just outlined and nearly all of them are extinct. Stephen the Cook wrote: > Michael Madigan <> wrote: > >> And what is "the good employee?" Someone who does dumb things for >> money, or someone who tries to give their expertise to save the >> company from doing dumb things? >> > > I find that if you have the ability to present to the people you "think" are > in power you are half way there. If you take it personally that they don't > see your plan as the only way you are going to have problems. > > I have found all to often that the leaders have a plan and an agenda already > in place. You may see the folly of it and get frustrated, but you only see > what is in front of you, and fail to see the long range plan. > > Stephen Russell > DBA / .Net Developer > > Memphis TN 38115 > 901.246-0159 > > "A good way to judge people is by observing how they treat those who > can do them absolutely no good." ---Unknown > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/ > > > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
