As a manager / supervisor of operations or projects - what do you think leadership means for any company CEO ? Who would the CEO value more ? WHY ?
A manager - needs to think about improvement of services, optimization, do more with less, innovate, basically better Return on Investment. ( From the CEO's / CFO's perspective )
You are in an excellent position to manage those services technically. However, as an operations manager - you need to think like a "service provider" - a profit center manager. Example: What if I made you the Head of Operations and Customer Support at Apple - to keep the whole itunes, appstore front etc running and customers happy. And you are told - to manage it profitably. How would you think ?
This is how I would respond to HR...
Example: All those services that you mentioned - would cost the company atleast a 20 million in Hardware and services costs annually. The business relies on these systems and the business revenue from these systems may be atleast 10 - 100 times the 20 million. i.e 200 mil - 2 Bil.
As a manager of these services, I would lead a team ( either internal or contractors or service providers) with a total salary of about 2-4 million. I would manage contracts, hardware/software/services/outsourcing/insourcing etc of atleast 20million per year.
If I provide new benefits of 10% either improved productivity or cost savings or new opportunity - that would be 2 million per year.
If I take away 10% of that as my salary - that would be 200,000 $ per year as a manager.
Now, I can definitely make arguments about the size of contracts that I make decisions on - the 20 million - and say how I can benefit more - by understanding product lifecycles, selecting better partners - so in the long term, I may benefit the company more - selecting better technologies etc. Thus providing 1 - 10 % productivity gain on the business revenue impacted - i.e. 1 - 10% of 200 Million or 1 - 10% of 2 Billion.
That would mean - I can benefit the company by atleast 2 Million - to a max of 200 Million.
How much should I ask for such benefits to the company ????
200,000 to 2 million $ per year.
NOW:
Can you make such commitments and take accountability for the said department ? Then you are the leader HR is looking for.
cheers venu
PS: Most often - a manager / any person falls into the trap of self pity - and blows his chances of success. Focus on the results and the conversation is of a higher quality and helps all. ( I learnt this the hard way - I got fired before I generated results more predictably )....
REFERENCE: Read - "Leadership and Self Deception" by Arbinger.
The Scope section of the document refers to just this type of situation:-
'Where the software is developed by someone other than the device manufacturer (e.g., off-the-shelf software) the software developer may not be directly responsible for compliance with FDA regulations. In that case, the party with regulatory responsibility (i.e., the device manufacturer) needs to assess the adequacy of the off-the-shelf software developer's activities and determine what additional efforts are needed to establish that the software is validated for the device manufacturer's intended use.'
So - it is clear what the FDA wants - it clearly does NOT stop you from using Free/Open Source Software, it just requires you to use quality processes to ensure the software is verified / tested for your intended use - which you SHOULD anyway do, if want to develop INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH software.
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Hello HappyDude
As a manager / supervisor of operations or projects - what do you think leadership means for any company CEO ? Who would the CEO value more ? WHY ?
A manager - needs to think about improvement of services, optimization, do more with less, innovate, basically better Return on Investment. ( From the CEO's / CFO's perspective )
You are in an excellent position to manage those services technically. However, as an operations manager - you need to think like a "service provider" - a profit center manager. Example: What if I made you the Head of Operations and Customer Support at Apple - to keep the whole itunes, appstore front etc running and customers happy. And you are told - to manage it profitably. How would you think ?
This is how I would respond to HR...
Example: All those services that you mentioned - would cost the company atleast a 20 million in Hardware and services costs annually. The business relies on these systems and the business revenue from these systems may be atleast 10 - 100 times the 20 million. i.e 200 mil - 2 Bil.
As a manager of these services, I would lead a team ( either internal or contractors or service providers) with a total salary of about 2-4 million. I would manage contracts, hardware/software/services/outsourcing/insourcing etc of atleast 20million per year.
If I provide new benefits of 10% either improved productivity or cost savings or new opportunity - that would be 2 million per year.
If I take away 10% of that as my salary - that would be 200,000 $ per year as a manager.
Now, I can definitely make arguments about the size of contracts that I make decisions on - the 20 million - and say how I can benefit more - by understanding product lifecycles, selecting better partners - so in the long term, I may benefit the company more - selecting better technologies etc. Thus providing 1 - 10 % productivity gain on the business revenue impacted - i.e. 1 - 10% of 200 Million or 1 - 10% of 2 Billion.
That would mean - I can benefit the company by atleast 2 Million - to a max of 200 Million.
How much should I ask for such benefits to the company ????
200,000 to 2 million $ per year.
NOW:
Can you make such commitments and take accountability for the said department ? Then you are the leader HR is looking for.
cheers
venu
PS: Most often - a manager / any person falls into the trap of self pity - and blows his chances of success. Focus on the results and the conversation is of a higher quality and helps all. ( I learnt this the hard way - I got fired before I generated results more predictably )....
REFERENCE: Read - "Leadership and Self Deception" by Arbinger.
I fully agree with the parent comment.
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And quoting from the document 'General Principles of Software Validation; Final Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff' at http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/comp/guidance/938.html#_T
The Scope section of the document refers to just this type of situation:-
'Where the software is developed by someone other than the device manufacturer (e.g., off-the-shelf software) the software developer may not be directly responsible for compliance with FDA regulations. In that case, the party with regulatory responsibility (i.e., the device manufacturer) needs to assess the adequacy of the off-the-shelf software developer's activities and determine what additional efforts are needed to establish that the software is validated for the device manufacturer's intended use.'
So - it is clear what the FDA wants - it clearly does NOT stop you from using Free/Open Source Software, it just requires you to use quality processes to ensure the software is verified / tested for your intended use - which you SHOULD anyway do, if want to develop INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH software.
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venu
BTW: Did anyone notice ?
Nikos Drakos - one of the Gartner consultants who is the author of that report is the writer of the famous latex2html tool.
Why do you need such 'Application Clusters' anyway ?
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