...producers aren't being asked to write new applications requiring tens of thousands of hours, but to customize an existing application, at a cost of tens of hours.
Customizing existing applications, for big companies, may very well require tens of thousands of hours. In fact, the cost of installing and configuring an ERP like SAP or PeopleSoft often dwarfs the initial license fee of the software.
"Westinghouse was big in broadcasting before this guy was born."
True. Westinghouse had half a dozen profitable radio stations. The other Westinghouse businesses were heavy industries that had been run into the ground.
Jordan merged Westinghouse with CBS, sold off all the unprofitable industrial businesses, and named the resulting company "CBS." Jordan preferred being a media tycoon over trying to turn around the industrial businesses. The new CBS was later bought by Viacom.
The industrial businesses live on under new, mostly foreign, ownership.
Some sharp cookie bought the rights to use the Westinghouse name. He imports Christmas tree lights and sells them under the Westinghouse logo. Consumers still associate the name with quality.
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Sounds like a mute point, if you ask me.
The Myers-Briggs test is not taken seriously by pyschologists anymore.
Just out of curiousity, how much did you get paid for your $4 million validation program?
> Never in the history of the world has a corporation been charged with a criminal offense.
Refresh my memory. What was it that happened to Arthur Andersen?
Well. You've obviously never heard of the DigiScents iSmell.
What OS would you prefer for a PC-based controller?
Customizing existing applications, for big companies, may very well require tens of thousands of hours. In fact, the cost of installing and configuring an ERP like SAP or PeopleSoft often dwarfs the initial license fee of the software.
"Westinghouse was big in broadcasting before this guy was born."
True. Westinghouse had half a dozen profitable radio stations. The other Westinghouse businesses were heavy industries that had been run into the ground.
Jordan merged Westinghouse with CBS, sold off all the unprofitable industrial businesses, and named the resulting company "CBS." Jordan preferred being a media tycoon over trying to turn around the industrial businesses. The new CBS was later bought by Viacom.
The industrial businesses live on under new, mostly foreign, ownership.
Some sharp cookie bought the rights to use the Westinghouse name. He imports Christmas tree lights and sells them under the Westinghouse logo. Consumers still associate the name with quality.
The policy you describe makes you a charter member of the Value Prevention Society (see Bob Lewis at infoworld.com).
"Why users hate IT," indeed.