Maybes the scorez sux0r so much kuz n0body carez to wright g00d englush!
And what does this say about our countries 5th graders? I really hope they can write a lot better than most slashdot posts.
I've spent 3 years of my life doing tech support, seen plenty of good and bad tech's but this takes the cake.
My team was providing tech support for internal employees of a F500 company, we we're required to go through a script at the start of each call to determine whom we were talking to and if they were calling on behalf of themself or someone else.
Our caller id system worked on users' employee id's but sometimes people would fat finger their eid and we would be made to look stupid. My cube neighbor gets a call from some lady who had typed in the wrong number. Apparently they had a bad connection because he keeped speaking louder trying to find out why she was calling. Suddenly he nearly screams out, "Are you calling for Dick?!". He realized his mistake, apologized profusely and then put her on hold for five minutes till everyone had stopped laughing.
Someone touched on this briefly before. I'm back in school going for a BS in CIS. I had been a CS major before for 3 years and after spending the last four years working in IT, I found that I would like to be in management, not a PHB but an actual working manager. Someone who can do the tech work as well as make the decisions.
I've since found that the classes are a joke. I'm at a well regarded school but the management courses are common sense and the technical courses I could sleep through. My upper division course I'm taking now, "Management of Web Technologies" would have you believe that IIS is the only sensical way to serve pages. They also seem to think that you can just slap SSL on your server and you suddenly have secure e-commerece.
There is too much compromise in the system. I'm not paying $900/course to not learn anything. Just because there is a lot of content in IT management doesn't mean that you can just skim over everything and cross your fingers! Thank god for the web and reading books at Barnes & Noble or I'd never learn a damn thing.
Disclaimer: I was recently laid off as my position was outsourced to HP.
First, I don't think that the VP ever really answered the questions that were asked. I think the whole point behind trying to sell the Adaptive Enterprise is that it is not something you can clearly define. I'd hate to actually do contract negotiations with them as I'm sure both parties will have different thoughts on what is covered under HP services.
The whole line about being able to dynamically restructure your IT resources to me means HP can help you figure out how to axe 1/3rd of your workforce and still "adapt" to your business needs.
As the interviewer pointed out, aligning IT with your business it nothing new. Hiring outside consultants to help do it is nothing new.
It begs the question, what is new about adaptive enterprise? Answer: Nothing. I don't see any proof that it is anything more than another marketing strategy designed to sell billable hours and support/consulting contracts.
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Maybes the scorez sux0r so much kuz n0body carez to wright g00d englush! And what does this say about our countries 5th graders? I really hope they can write a lot better than most slashdot posts.
I've spent 3 years of my life doing tech support, seen plenty of good and bad tech's but this takes the cake. My team was providing tech support for internal employees of a F500 company, we we're required to go through a script at the start of each call to determine whom we were talking to and if they were calling on behalf of themself or someone else. Our caller id system worked on users' employee id's but sometimes people would fat finger their eid and we would be made to look stupid. My cube neighbor gets a call from some lady who had typed in the wrong number. Apparently they had a bad connection because he keeped speaking louder trying to find out why she was calling. Suddenly he nearly screams out, "Are you calling for Dick?!". He realized his mistake, apologized profusely and then put her on hold for five minutes till everyone had stopped laughing.
Someone touched on this briefly before. I'm back in school going for a BS in CIS. I had been a CS major before for 3 years and after spending the last four years working in IT, I found that I would like to be in management, not a PHB but an actual working manager. Someone who can do the tech work as well as make the decisions. I've since found that the classes are a joke. I'm at a well regarded school but the management courses are common sense and the technical courses I could sleep through. My upper division course I'm taking now, "Management of Web Technologies" would have you believe that IIS is the only sensical way to serve pages. They also seem to think that you can just slap SSL on your server and you suddenly have secure e-commerece. There is too much compromise in the system. I'm not paying $900/course to not learn anything. Just because there is a lot of content in IT management doesn't mean that you can just skim over everything and cross your fingers! Thank god for the web and reading books at Barnes & Noble or I'd never learn a damn thing.
Disclaimer: I was recently laid off as my position was outsourced to HP.
First, I don't think that the VP ever really answered the questions that were asked. I think the whole point behind trying to sell the Adaptive Enterprise is that it is not something you can clearly define. I'd hate to actually do contract negotiations with them as I'm sure both parties will have different thoughts on what is covered under HP services.
The whole line about being able to dynamically restructure your IT resources to me means HP can help you figure out how to axe 1/3rd of your workforce and still "adapt" to your business needs. As the interviewer pointed out, aligning IT with your business it nothing new. Hiring outside consultants to help do it is nothing new.
It begs the question, what is new about adaptive enterprise? Answer: Nothing. I don't see any proof that it is anything more than another marketing strategy designed to sell billable hours and support/consulting contracts.