Years of promoting Operations folks and neglecting the R&D folks has gotten you into quite a cluster. Where do you work if you are not intelligent enough or disciplined enough to work in R&D? I will give you one guess.
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Well, if ops didn’t keep sh--ting their pants and pulling the plug or playing both sides against the middle You might have some new thinkgs to sell.
Believe they were saying this is bigger than just one group or team and the problem is not resolved at one level.
Going to "idiot", I may have to agree with them as you seem very defensive.
Rest assured, Weatherford does not have the money to run a true R&D program and that is why people are losing there jobs. If a product is near completion and will return cash it may continue but not much beyond that. With no spending for development, why keep the people as well?
This isn’t about egos idiot.
Hey guys, hate to tread on your egos here but for the system to work well you kind of need both sets of folks (operations and R&D engineers) as well as some others.
WFT has good folks in both categories, just as they have some that are not worth anything but s---ing up oxygen from the rest of us. The issue at WFT is that although there are good folks in each group the process is broken and all remain in their own silo. Yes there are some exceptions as with everything. However overall the drive to deliver is not provided by the management team and clarity of vision is not there. It is one thing to say you need a clear path, but you must also be agile enough to make minor changes along the way (think of Scrum mentality in IT development).
So set you ego aside, you're a good little worker - however that guy in the field/office is as well.
R&D develops what they are told to develop. They do it well. If you don't like the outcomes, ask for what is actually needed and stick to the plan. Good R&D engineers are employable outside this industry and they are starting to jump ship. Clean up before you don't have a good team any more. You can't replace R&D engineers with Ops people. They can't do the job. Some jobs are based on skills, not the good ol' boy system.
I don’t know what R&D people you are talking about but that is not true. If your career is based on your contact list, good luck to you.
R&D People have no relationships or contacts with the people in the industry that buy. With out operations contacts your dead in tne water.
To have an R&D program you need a vision and a plan!
There is no vision, beyond survival at this point. There is no plan, beyond every man for himself.
This is the fundamental problem with WFT. They have never had a vision beyond acquiring companies with tech. This was not an issue and would have served them well, except they forgot about the plan to pull things together and keep moving forward.
WFT is like that person who has to have the latest iPhone, they love the tech and just run up their credit card bills buying all the cool stuff with no plan to do anything with it other than the basic stuff and, oh ya - they don't pay their bills.
Two problems. Most of the good R&D people have quit because of being ignored. Operations tells R&D what to do. Do you see the problem?
The only reason R&D is still in existence is the smoke machine has to be kept operational to signify that a new CEO has been chosen.
Have R&D come up with any technology that leads in the industry or are you just blowin smoke.