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Why Can't Non-Tech Companies Do Tech Well?

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-must-be-new-here dept.

Walzmyn writes:

"The company I work for is not a tech company. We are, however, a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company that claims to be the largest of our kind in three industries (and second largest in a 4th). And yet, our company network sucks. There is a mishmash of Citrix and SAP, multiple web-portals, and none of them work with each other. The several thousand non-technical people that work for this company are routinely asked to interface with this system and end up spending time with the helpdesk or with a supervisor looking over the shoulder for something that was supposed to be private.

I've heard of similar situations with other companies, so I wanted to ask the folks that live and breathe the tech sector this: Why can't a company this size get something so fundamental done right? Why can't they at least hire a third party to do it right for them?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday February 20 2014, @11:02AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 20 2014, @11:02AM (#3336) Journal

    If you believe it is a hindrance, and you can prove that making a change to it will allow the company be in a better competitive position as a result of changing it, then go ahead and write up a report ...

    Oh, what's the point, it's too late already, will never happen... Proof in 3 steps:

    1. leader in 3 industries and the second in the 4th : "we don't have significant competition, no need to be more competitive"
    2. "We are loosing ground in some direction? We shouldn't have been so diversified, need to re-focus on core strengths. Sell, de-merge... whatever it works, need to show some positive results to the shareholders"
    3. "Oh, we aren't leader any more? Let's cut some fat - where's that list of cost centers?"
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