Diary of a CEO

KPMG held a project management presentation telling us how they -- as consultants will help us changing the project management routine and training our people for the process management. they are very professional, but telling our staff " why " before " how to " is our concern, if we don't have the sense of urgency or crisis, change won't come as we wish; in the early morning, we explained the new organization chart to head of tech, tried to convince him what we -- management plan to do is for the best interest of the company -- flat reporting line, integral resource, project driven and coach future managers -- in the beginning, he is a little bit resistant, because when showing the Organization chart, it seems he is only care about the reporting line and the balance of power, this is what I don't like -- a chart map can't really reflect to what a dynamic organization is, dept. by dept. segment will always create the room of gap and communication break down, change from outside then influence into inside, so, environment changes, we need to come up with new and surviving strategy, in order to cope with the strategy, organizational design shall fit the new mission , and then, resource shall be allocated, simple, logic --- but it consist of too many changed, change the pipeline, focus, structure and people.

HP conduct another presentation for business server upgrade, yes, first telling you how bad your current server perform and how danger to keep it this way, second introduce you a better solution, not the best solution and tell you the current equipment is phase out -- what?, the direct you to the model they promote -- buy the new and expense one and your will free from the crash, from the loading, from the data lost and from the service impact. we all know state of art technology and new machine will definitely perform better than old one, but we don't know whether the investment justified, all we can do it to find the best price within the required service level and hope the company who sold us machine won't go bankruptcy and our people who handle this expensive toy will stay as long as the machine in our rooms.

H. resign from the no. 1 record chains a few weeks ago, she is a strong career woman, we talked for 3 hours, you can't always get what you want; be strong, you must pay some price; she is a good friend of my wife, we met together 5 years ago, and the relationship graduate developed, knowledge in retailing / chain store management and channel development. I think she is no problem surviving this compete race.

posted by Roger @ 3/18/2004 07:42:00 上午