Learning to let go and change
Brian Siegel
SchmidtCo Case
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Learning to “Let GO”!
The IT of the company cannot fall behind, upgraded need to stay in line with the changes in time, or their company and systems will fail or be less than par, and keep it streamlined. If you have to do massive upgrades, it will be more costly. With family, personnel decisions are more touch. With vendor management and contracts related to 500K or large sums, they need to have more lawyers and a friend involved earlier to prevent huge issues with contracts, money, functionality, and what the system/vendor can do for contingency plans, or if they go out of business!
Like their IT system decisions and other decisions, they need to be firm, negotiate better, make it reliable, functional, and have credible support/vendors, improve, and upgrade their systems so they’re not like dinosaurs.
The team needs to interact and give more feedback better. Definitely due diligence and research needs to be done better. Properly implementing things earlier, being pro active, eliminating steps, and the automation/functionality is key. An earlier investment in a professional and credible vendor and support would eliminate snow balling bad results.
Integrating the team, jointly arriving with functions that will help and interact is important, and dropping the outdated or issues to start over (like Dtech, where they should’ve been aware since so few were using it), would be a good start. Better pro activeness, and due diligence would allow a better IT manager / vendor to antiquate the systems / assimilate goals.
They need to find a more competent IT manager and vendors, move on, bite the bullet, and see what they can squeeze out of the former employees/vendor etc., they had more than enough chances, and spent more than enough of their money! They need to take a more formal approach, look at data, form a strategic vision, attacked focus, and get more aggressive rather than the laze fair approach they had taken. Perhaps meet with other companies that used the system they had, meet with companies who had success or issues with the system they have or use better methods.
SchmidtCo Case
INFO
Learning to “Let GO”!
The IT of the company cannot fall behind, upgraded need to stay in line with the changes in time, or their company and systems will fail or be less than par, and keep it streamlined. If you have to do massive upgrades, it will be more costly. With family, personnel decisions are more touch. With vendor management and contracts related to 500K or large sums, they need to have more lawyers and a friend involved earlier to prevent huge issues with contracts, money, functionality, and what the system/vendor can do for contingency plans, or if they go out of business!
Like their IT system decisions and other decisions, they need to be firm, negotiate better, make it reliable, functional, and have credible support/vendors, improve, and upgrade their systems so they’re not like dinosaurs.
The team needs to interact and give more feedback better. Definitely due diligence and research needs to be done better. Properly implementing things earlier, being pro active, eliminating steps, and the automation/functionality is key. An earlier investment in a professional and credible vendor and support would eliminate snow balling bad results.
Integrating the team, jointly arriving with functions that will help and interact is important, and dropping the outdated or issues to start over (like Dtech, where they should’ve been aware since so few were using it), would be a good start. Better pro activeness, and due diligence would allow a better IT manager / vendor to antiquate the systems / assimilate goals.
They need to find a more competent IT manager and vendors, move on, bite the bullet, and see what they can squeeze out of the former employees/vendor etc., they had more than enough chances, and spent more than enough of their money! They need to take a more formal approach, look at data, form a strategic vision, attacked focus, and get more aggressive rather than the laze fair approach they had taken. Perhaps meet with other companies that used the system they had, meet with companies who had success or issues with the system they have or use better methods.
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