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02-05-2016, 09:47 PM | #1 | ||
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Business is Slowing Down
The business sector of the economy is doing pretty well according to most pundits, unless they're touting a book they wrote that says it isn't. But Fortune Magazine says business is slowing down in another way.
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02-05-2016, 10:25 PM | #2 |
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Is it primarily a function of the fact that the businesses are conglomerating and thus are themselves bigger? A smaller company always does things faster.
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02-05-2016, 10:59 PM | #3 |
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That makes sense, they're congealing, and we know that's slows things up.
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02-06-2016, 08:02 AM | #4 |
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Still a bad trend, IMHO. But one that at least will solve itself, assuming we stay a reasonably functioning capitalist society.
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02-06-2016, 02:50 PM | #5 |
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I can say that for IT projects, expectations are way, waaay higher than they were from 2010 to 2015. Mobile everything, all the time, wider scopes and wider exposures to security breaches, more data, more data to lose, etc, etc.
Now, I'm smarter than before, and there are more tools than before, but LOTS of shit is just more complicated and it takes longer.
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Where this problem was solved, the solution was easy. Sergio Marchionne solved Fiat's problems by firing or replacing most all top management in 60 days. Ford used another solution - reduce the layers of management from 48 to 5. Bell Labs, once a benchmark of American innovation, no longer is so productive. Some of its famous graduates include Carly Fiorina who then went on to do massive damage to Hewlett Packard in only four years. She had no idea what electronic instrumentation did. HP's was a world's best (only the best hospital ERs once used HP equipment). So she spun these off for a fraction of their value. Then hired plenty of subordinates to explain what printers and computers might do. They then recommended a disastrous Compaq merger. Increases in management layers (and therefore excessively long decision making) is a symptom of business school management. Where knowing anything about the product is irrelevant. And where answers must be extracted from spread sheet analysis. Paul Weaver demonstrates his experience in Ford. Quote:
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