Emails went around the office last week and management planning meetings were cancelled this week. My line management telling us nothing will change and they can keep their world they have made.
Are they kidding? The business needs a radical shake up and this is just the catalyst. Become agile and smart, stop the endless navel gazing and report writing, start innovating and selling. Not everything has to be about a report or a purchase order.
Bring on the future.
"fill in more it's political just do it get the manager off the radar"
it does serve a purpose then. You can't have everything.
you cant talk to anyone about all the forms and forms and forms. They just say "fill in more it's political just do it get the manager off the radar" every week. Most of the company is locked in daily forms and naval gazing and no managers see customers.
have you spoken to the people responsible for the forms and process? chances are these people sits in Austin/Hopkinton and makes the decision from the toilet seats and you need to go through 3 gatekeepers to get your points accross.
So many forms and templates to fill in cancelling customer meetings to fill in deck after deck, after training on what we can do rather than actually doing the work and executing. Hours of fighting clunky SFDC and side processes. Forms forms forms just so the next person up has a traffic light for the next person up. Productivity? What's that
Dell, just like good old EMC, does not innovate. It just buys out companies for their products, juice them out as long as it is an easy sell, then jumps on next year bandwagon... forgetting what it bought last year and why it did it... What a vision.
For us in the bottom rung the ostrich strategy of ignoring what is happening is good. Otherwise very difficult to go about our daily work. Remember titanic as shown in the movie. While the ship was sinking there was ballroom dancing and the poignant scene of the violinists playing their tunes amidst all the chaos and impending doom. That's going to be Dell this year. Keep up the morale and try to jump into a lifeboat.
Unfortunately for many employees, cases that start off as reorganizations often convert to Chapter 7 and end up going out of business
https://www.thebalance.com/what-to-do-when-your-company-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-316247
hates it when people confuse data analysis with report writing. That aside, Dell is the one place where everybody stops working for 2 months to prepare to butter f--- a VP.
Thats all we do now, remember the days we could be in front of customers all day instead of filling in another form. Not being pushed to overcommit funnel by a manager so he could tell his manager who would tell his manager then his manager and tick a box all from the office. Productive is all about internal reporting here.
You mean SpreadSheet Management doesn't work ?