my take on Kodak downfall
On 02/10/2014 01:36 PM, nospam wrote:
yep. kodak pioneered digital photography and knew it one day would
replace film, but management didn't want to do anything to impact the
revenue from film. very stupid.
for the record I worked in R&D as a systems engineer
it really wasn't the money, it was the people
Rochester's nickname is "smug-town"
existing connection circles prevailed over performance and even
organizational responsibility
there were all kinds of groups vying too do the new stuff
film had the money, film people got the careers
remember this is entertainment technology careers for the most part and
entertaining work as opposed to necessity work, fun prevailed too
the last job I had was hybrid systems integration on the film side
we couldn't have the word integration in the name of our group, since
there was an equipment group was responsible for integration,, but we
got the budgets and careers, while the equipment people had "jobs" doing
not much
if it weren't an entertainment business that didn't really matter too
much, in much cases, the money and performance would have prevailed
there is your business case study
this was a publicly held company, public means socialism whether you
think so or not, and the public suffered, there needs to be better law
for socialized business
private companies can set pecking orders however you want
socialized companies have a trust, and pecking orders other than by
performance should be called anti-trust, in fact I can't think of any
other anti-trust that is worse
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Dale
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