SkipVought
Programmer
Given:
Your company produces several different product lines, like a General Motors (product lines like Chevrolet, Buick...).
Each product line has a program office where strategic decisions are make and implemented. Some decisions seem to be made without regard to other programs competing for common resources, and systems are implemented to manage the program's objectives as it seems, without regard to the objectives of other programs.
Your company has cost centers thru which work orders pass to produce parts for all product lines, both common parts and product peculiar parts. Sometimes one program takes precedence over all others.
How common is this kind of parochialism and how can it be justified from a corporate perspective?
Skip,
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Your company produces several different product lines, like a General Motors (product lines like Chevrolet, Buick...).
Each product line has a program office where strategic decisions are make and implemented. Some decisions seem to be made without regard to other programs competing for common resources, and systems are implemented to manage the program's objectives as it seems, without regard to the objectives of other programs.
Your company has cost centers thru which work orders pass to produce parts for all product lines, both common parts and product peculiar parts. Sometimes one program takes precedence over all others.
How common is this kind of parochialism and how can it be justified from a corporate perspective?
Skip,
[red]Be advised:[/red] When you ignite a firecracker in a bowl of vanilla, chocolate & strawberry ice cream, you get...Neopolitan Blownapart!
