Looking at the among many gifted sides of Sir Winston Churchill I do like the one in the header of this post. I guess I need to learn more to how to do it since my skills right now are in the need of development. See I am learning 😉
For many years now I have had different jobs in the area of trying to improve exciting products or services within the Telco world. To be honest that has been some challenge when the good old way of doing business was to try to look into the future and make products that served the purpose in a “great” way. Looking back I still see the services and products that we where able to build using known great technologies, and hardware/software that did not have the “touch” off short term procurement all over…
In my view something went totally wrong when the procurement departments went outside what they should be supporting, yes supporting and not managing the bits and pieces needed to make the great services and products.
I have met the great procurement people and for sure I have met the opposite, where the later seems to be “winning” the game, to meet the requirements that some put forward that nothing should last longer than six months…without trouble..;-)
Yes, I have told of many of a supplier, colleague, etc, etc, and I am sorry that the wording might have come out wrong. I am learning all the time, some tell me.. 🙂
Looking back at some of the developments in the Telco business I should have shouted even higher. I wonder where that business is heading? Long term buildout is for sure not one of the key elements in their business strategy.
I am glad I have found some suppliers, people and business lines that share the views on building long term and that quality does have a price when we look at real TCO (total cost of ownership).. cross departments that is..;-)
reagards
bjørn